Labour pains

Dear Editor, As everyone will be aware the politics of Scotland has changed from not being a fight between right and left but between those of us who wish to remain part of the United Kingdom and those who want independence at any cost.

On Monday the leader of my party, Kezia Dugdale, said that under no circumstances would the Labour party support independence yet on the same day the four newly-elected members of the Labour group were holding talks with the Nationalists to take over Stirling Council.

On Wednesday I had to look on in horror and disgust as Labour Councillors Danny Gibson and Margaret Brisley nominated and seconded Nationalists for positions in the council while they themselves were given prime positions from which they will gain financially.

I am aware I will be disciplined by the Labour Party because of this letter but sometimes you have to put the surrounding landscape. It also surprises me the bin collections in this part of the National Park take place at the weekends when there are the most visitors.

Yours etc Lib Gorton, St Albans

your country and principles first and as one of only two miners left on the Stirling Constituency Labour Party who was on strike for 56 weeks at Polmaise Colliery it pains me to say it, the actions by the members of the Labour Group prove beyond a doubt that the only party that will stand up for Scotland is Ruth Davidson’s’ Conservative Party, and I am not the only one in Stirling CLP who recognises that.

Alistair Weir, Castleview, Bannockburn