Wrong to stir up hostility

Sir, – Reading Dave Coull’s letter in the Courier (Beware the Tory love bomb, Courier, February 11), I am surprised it passed the editorial process, such was the venom contained against Conservative Party politicians, to say nothing of historical inaccuracy and absence of fact to support allegations.

Mr Coull seems to forget the “austerity” programme in UK politics was caused by the former Labour chancellor and prime minister, our own Gordon Brown, who massively overspent the UK budget and created an economic deficit that was inherited by the Tories, who imposed much needed fiscal discipline to balance the books.

To suggest the Conservative government and before that, the Conservative/ Lib-dem coalition deliberately withheld funding from Scotland is simply fatuous nonsense.

What about the shipbuilding contracts awarded to Scottish yards by the Ministry of Defence?

What about the fact that funding per-capita to Scotland via the Barnett formula outstrips that spent in England ?

The real difficulty in Scotland is the poor government record by the SNP.

It has a track record of appointing failing ministers into key jobs, and creating fears among potential investors, both within the UK and overseas, that independence ideology poses a grave risk to future investment returns.

It is business that creates jobs and puts food on family tables.

It is not the aspirations of SNP politicians who seem quite unable to inspire anyone beyond their supporters of emotional ideology. Derek Farmer. Knightsward Farm, Anstruther.