New items to add to baby box

Sir, – The way things are progressing I think the Scottish Government ought to add a couple of items in the box given to every child born in Scotland.

First a handbook on gender choice, second perhaps, let us say, 10 £1 betting chips.

A A Bullions. 6 Glencairn Crescent, Leven. congratulate Ross Thompson MP for his sturdy and honest (and probably personally difficult) defence of his position on a Brexit deal which provides none of the guarantees which the fishing community of the North East of Scotland were promised.

Would that more of our elected politicians exhibited such constancy on difficult issues.

He is young enough, however, to perhaps not remember who it was who sold out the fishing rights in Scotland’s territorial waters in the first place.

It leads me to wonder, does he believe an independent Scotland would ever have sold out Scotland’s fishing communities?

Furthermore, does Mr Thompson believe that having the future of Scotland’s fishing in the same hands that sold them out in the first place is ever a safe place to be?

Does he agree with me that the best agency to argue for Scotland’s fishing concerns would be an independent Scotland?

David McEwan Hill. 1 Tom Nan Ragh, Dalinlongart.