How to win over No voters

the SNP still doesn’t seem to realise that to gain independence, it’s no good talking among its supporters – it has to win over us No voters.

Getting called ‘Yoons’ on social media won’t help, nor will claiming that there’s some sort of uK-state plot to undermine key Nationalists, or falling out among themselves.

try sorting out the schools, transport and the NhS instead. JILL HuNtER, Ayr.

SNP hQ is crowing because a new pollster, which concentrates on emotion, finds that people would narrowly vote to leave the uK after Brexit is implemented (Mail).

Linking Brexit to Scottish separatism leads to specious assumptions.

It would be much more enlightening if pollsters asked the only relevant and honest question: ‘Would you vote for a Scotland that was outside both the uK and the eu?’ JILL StEPHENSoN, Edinburgh.

COuLD all the people who have been urging Nicola Sturgeon to ‘get on with the day job’ please stop?

She thinks you mean Brexit, Indyref 2, Alex Salmond and avoiding any meaningful debate at the SNP conference.

If we all ask her to ‘ignore the day job’ she might focus on sorting out the NhS, education, housing and social care. ALLAN SutHERLANd, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire.

ISN’t a no-deal hard Brexit just what the SNP offered us in 2014 – and we’d have been out the uK into the bargain?

And wasn’t Nicola Sturgeon going to play hardball with the eu if it didn’t do a quick deal with us, threatening to strip 160,000 or so eu citizens living here of residency rights? JAmES GILL, Edinburgh.