Ignore ‘unadulterated piffle’ and embrace referendum

Sir, – This is the start of a momentous, joyous time for the people of Scotland and the clock has started ticking towards the day when we can choose a better future for those that follow us.

We will hear cries of “shameful” and “now is not the time”, but we would have heard the same cries if the vote was 50 years from now.

This should have happened eight years ago and then, when the “yes” vote was leading by quite a margin in the polls, at the last minute we had the discredited “project fear” and, of course, the threat that if we voted “yes” we would be taken out of the EU.

Ironically, voting “yes” is now our only way back. There was also other nonsense regarding pensions and currency and this will be clarified in the coming months.

The unionist propaganda machine will shortly start up again and we will be treated to so much unadulterated piffle that Lord Haw Haw would have been proud. We won’t be fooled a second time.

This is our time. Seize the day and seize the hour. We can do no worse than that big house of sleaze down south. An independent Scotland will certainly not be sending any flights to Rwanda – surely the UK’s most damning and shameful project since, well, since the last one.

Finally, if we were to believe the propaganda that Scotland is subsidised by England to the tune of billions of pounds every year then rest assured these money-driven people running parliament would have jettisoned Scotland a very long time ago – indeed even before oil was discovered in the North Sea. England has never sought independence because the truth is somewhat different. Stewart Falconer. Glenisla View,

Alyth