The big decision has already been made

Sir, – With regards to your letter “Scotland should decide its own destiny” (August 27), it may have escaped the author that we already decided our own “destiny” in 2014, after almost three years of debate and going over all the various procedures and issues many, many times.

Furthermore, in the immediate aftermath of the referendum, all the parties represented in Holyrood got together to negotiate and agree a new set of proposals for devolution within Scotland, and this agreement was then taken forward in its entirety, legislated for at both Westminster and Holyrood.

It follows that the current constitutional arrangement that we have has been agreed to by 100% of the people represented by the various parties now at Holyrood.

In practice, of course, we know that the SNP were disregarding the referendum result almost the moment it was declared, and they behaved with dishonour by negotiating an agreement with other parties in Scotland on devolution and then turning their backs on it.

With the SNP in government, it appears that Scotland’s immediate destiny is gong to be further division and decline.

By disregarding the 2014 vote, the SNP have effectively undermined the validity of any further vote, and closed down any future options they might have.

The answer is to move away from this nonsense for a generation, and our children can revisit it if they want to at that point. Victor Clements. Taybridge Terrace, Aberfeldy.

A pro-independence march in Dundee. Correspondent Victor Clements says another referendum should be forgotten about for a generation.