March was an utterly pointless exercise

Sir, – Even if Stewart Hosie’s “guesstimate” of the All Under One Banner attendance figures was correct at 16,000 it is still a pretty poor turnout for a movement that thinks it has a passionate and mass following – particularly when Dundee is supposedly a ‘Yes’ city.

Football in Scotland commands far more interest with Rangers and Celtic averaging 50,000 per home game.

The Royal Highland Show attracts more than 48,000 each day and even the Braemar Gathering has an annual attendance of around 16,000.

If the march organisers would have us believe that there is a sustained and hugely popular demand for independence then they have failed miserably.

This was a limp display which achieved little except perhaps to bring to mind what would have happened if Scots had voted for independence in 2014, the general consensus being that we would have faced economic Armageddon and decades of fiscal hardships.

Banners suggest Scotland seeks freedom, but from what?

We are not oppressed.

Noisy, bad mannered, abusive banner waving displays cannot and will not address the real questions that the nationalists are unable to consistently answer with real facts rather than fanciful delusions.

Mr Hosie, like the Grand old Duke of York who had 10,000 men, marched them up to the top of the hill and then marched them down again – an utterly pointless exercise.

Iain G Richmond. Guildy House, Monikie.

Picture: Steve MacDougall. Although 16,000 marched in Dundee, one correspondent argues it isn’t enough, especially for a supposed ‘Yes’ city.