Put lives before Indyref

‘neVeR give a sucker an even break’. This was the catchphrase of one of my maths teachers in the Sixties.

It now looks as though it is in nicola Surgeon’s little book of pet phrases as she insists there is no reason for delaying either the May election or her fanatical drive for Indyref 2.

Clearly, despite her assertions to the contrary, Covid takes second place to her lifelong dream of an independent Scotland.

Why the rush for bits of paper to be put in a box – aren’t people’s lives and wellbeing more i mportant? Could it be self- preservation as reports, inquiries and an endless assortment of negativity threaten her political standing?

The last thing Miss Sturgeon wants is May to be an election based on her administration’s lack of performance, so she pushes ahead knowing those older ‘nae sayers’ will be fearful of venturing out to polling stations whilst her zealots will be queued around the corner to register their adulation. It looks as though my old maths teacher might have been referring to politicians of his day.

as one of the ‘suckers’, little has changed in 60 years.

GrAHAM WyLLIE, Greengairs, Lanarkshire.

FIRST Minister nicola Sturgeon says on the BBC Good Morning Scotland programme ‘ i t’s really important that our democratic processes continue in Scotland’.

I take it, then, the vote against independence in 2014 still stands? Or will it continue to be democracy when is suits the SnP?

P rOBErTSON, Burntisland, Fife.