Time for change of government

Sir, - The fact that the SNP has lost around 500,000 votes since the referendum and is now propped up in government by six Green MSPs who between them got 13,172 first preference votes in the last Holyrood elections suggests that independence is not imminent.

In other words, one could fairly conclude that they have been found out.

Add to this their vapid stewardship over a decline in Scotland’s social, education and economic health and you could be excused for thinking that, after 10 years and with four still to go, it is time for a change of government.

However, the obstacles to this are great.

There would have to be a vote of no confidence and available alternatives ready to take over.

The first could be achieved if the Greens accepted the moral unfairness of their position as kingmakers with hardly any popular support, and if other parties followed the Tories in beginning to develop policies to wrench this country back to reality and prosperity.

All I see is Labour in disarray and some of their number cuddling up to nationalists, possibly eyeing some coaltion to see them both through to 2021.

It is an extremely disappointing situation.

Scotland needs and deserves better than this.

Allan Sutherland. 1 Willow Row, Stonehaven.

The fact that the SNP has lost around 500,000 votes since the referendum and is now propped up in government by six Green MSPs who between them got 13,172 first preference votes in the last Holyrood elections suggests that independence is not imminent