Concentrate on the day job

Sir, – It is alleged that a direction has been given to Scottish teachers not to use “problematic”

language such as “British values”.

This comes hot on the heels of an absence in studying British history from the Curriculum for Excellence programmes in our schools.

There appears to be an ever increasing drive to excise all things with the name British from the Scottish political landscape.

Thus, in their ceaseless drive toward the goal of independence, the very word appears as an anathema to the SNP.

Were this to be the only negative in the country’s direction it could be relegated to the back burner, but the SNP has presided over a decade of deteriorating educational standards, a faltering NHS (witness the debacle in Tayside) and an absence of policemen, doctors, health service providers and teachers, with apparently little plan as to how to tackle these shortfalls.

Add this to this our roads, which are increasingly becoming unfit for purpose.

Surely, and for the sake of the nation, put the concept of independence on hold, limit the need for expensive spin doctors and quangos and concentrate on the day to day needs of this country and be judged rather on that.

David L Thomson. 24 Laurence Park, Kinglassie.