Nicola dangling Indyref carrot to the party faithful

SO Nicola Sturgeon massively talks up the impending prospect of Indyref 2 at the SNP conference – no surprise there. Separatism is her teenage dream and the party constitution specifically prioritises striving for independence over governing Scotland.

If Miss Sturgeon doesn’t appear bullish to the party faithful, there are rivals impatiently hovering in the wings – rivals willing not only to attack the ‘cult’ of Sturgeon but seemingly even more determined to break up the uK by almost any means than she is.

MARTIN REDFERN, Melrose, Roxburghshire. The SNP are discussing the justification for a second referendum ‘to give the people of an independent Scotland a government accountable to the Scottish people’. At the same time they are ducking and diving to avoid explanations and accountability to the elected representatives of the Scottish people in the £500,000 Salmond fiasco. IAN WETHERILL, Greenock,

Renfrewshire.

Nationalists’ new low

I THOUGHT I was past astonishment at what was said by leaders of the SNP. But Angus Robertson’s comment that the uK Government was ‘weaponising’ the coronavirus vaccine against Scottish nationalists was beyond crass and changed my opinion. I did not think they could sink so low.

Whether or not the vaccine bears the flag of the country of origin has no bearing on its life- saving abilities. Is it even possible for nationalists to think rationally and as other human beings do?

This is a treatment that will save tens of thousands, if not millions, of lives. Who but a zealot would care about a flag?

ALEXANDER MCKAY, Edinburgh.

Give us the truth

IN her car- crash interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr, Nicola

Sturgeon refused to admit to any of the statistics that did not favour her point of view. Her ultimate response was to say that the people of Scotland will judge.

That is all very well if the people of Scotland are being given irrefutable facts, but SNP spin and Miss Sturgeon’s daily broadcasts have completely unbalanced the arguments. Add to this the incessant attacks on Westminster and Boris Johnson and we are experiencing a very one-sided viewpoint.

The behaviour of Miss Sturgeon’s government over the Salmond inquiry proves the point.

GERALD EDWARDS, Glasgow.

Scots deserve better

The Chancellor is handing Scotland £2.4billion to assist with the pandemic recovery and yet the SNP say it’s not enough. Where would an independent Scotland get that kind of cash from? Many of us are totally sick of the constant agitation for independence while the country falls apart.

Scotland deserves much better than Sturgeon and her incompetent government.

EDWARD DONNACHIE, Glasgow.

Christmas conundrum

We can have eight people from three households for Christmas dinner observing social distancing of two metres, according to She Who Must Be Obeyed.

Jason Leitch suggests using a pasting table. Can anyone tell me where I can buy a six-metre long by two-metre wide pasting table? IAN BALLOCH, Grangemouth,

Stirlingshire.

Electric cars shocker

RESEARCH commissioned by Honda, Aston Martin, Bosch and McLaren has shown that the manufacture of electric vehicles generates 63 per cent more carbon dioxide than petrol or diesel models (Mail). This means that some electric cars have to be driven for almost 50,000 miles before they are as ‘green’ as cars powered by fossil fuels. Other research shows similar findings.

The uK Government’s decision to ban the sale of diesel and petrol vehicles from 2030 is a futile, draconian measure since Britain has 40million such cars whereas the world has 7.6billion.

Other countries have neither the intention nor the ability of going all-electric. China has 300million vehicles of which two-thirds are cars. Their share of global emissions is 30 per cent, the uK 1.13 per cent, so taking every single uK petrol/diesel car off the roads will not make one iota of difference to the planet. CLARK CROSS, Linlithgow, West Lothian.

Forgotten musicians

MY HUSBAND has been a selfemployed musician for more than 50 years. Concerts won’t resume until next year.

He doesn’t qualify for financial help from government schemes. But he has been offered the princely sum of £2.91 pension credit — what an insult!

S. CLEALL, Rochester, Kent.