Scottish Labour needs to wake up and smell the coffee

Sir,– May I make a suggestion to whoever will be the new leader of the Labour Party in Scotland. Could you please, when elected, stand up and smell the coffee!

By that I mean take a hard look at the polls and try to see what it is the people of Scotland want.

As much as 54% (perhaps more when the “don’t knows” make their minds up) of the electorate in Scotland back another independence referendum.

Scottish independence is not a party policy as such, so Labour would not be betraying their socialist beliefs by backing it, rather, they would be backing the desires of the majority of the people of Scotland.

Who knows, by doing this they may find themselves as part of a coalition government in Scotland once independence is obtained. It surprises me the Labour Party in Scotland calls itself “Scottish” Labour, because to me it just cowtows to masters in the “British” Labour Party.

They go along with the refusal of another muchneeded referendum on independence when it is clear it is what the people of Scotland desire.

Many Scots deserted the Labour Party after their old “diehards” spun their lies about how badly Scotland would do if independent at the last referendum and how we would never get into Europe if we left the UK, and now look at us.

It is long past time Labour in Scotland started to do the people’s will.

So, whoever is voted in as leader, walk up to the coffee pot and take in a good sniff!

Robert Donald. Denhead Farm, Ceres.