Politics needs a positive note

Sir, – I have given up listening to most of the exchanges from the main opposition parties at First Minister’s Questions.

It is not about holding the Scottish Government to account but of going on at length, especially Ruth Davidson, about how bad things are in Scotland compared to the rest of the UK without any ideas for how things would be better if she was first minister.

The other pro-union leaders are about as bad.

As a supporter of Scottish independence since I left Waid Academy in June 1990, but whose first vote at the general election in 1992 was for Menzies Campbell, I wonder when the pro-union parties are going to come up with manifestos I might actually want to vote for?

Peter Ovenstone. Orchard Grove, Peterhead.