Scotland facing a stark choice

Sir, – Andrew Wilson’s growth commission report represents the firing of a good starting gun for a second independence referendum campaign.

It has certainly put the unionist parties on the back-foot.

Their opposition has come from the same intellectually-limited band with empty soundbites.

Ross Thompson and James Kelly both used the same phrases of “fantasy economics”.

Meanwhile, a salesman with no economic qualifications in the form of Kevin Hague was also wheeled out.

He appeared to manage a whole debate without having read it.

Iain Gray suggested the solution was more Labour party Town Hall bureaucrats in Westminster as MPs in Ermine robes.

Gray’s solution has been tried before.

In the 1980’s the feeble 50 Labour MPs did precisely nothing while Thatcher axed 250,000 manufacturing jobs from Scotland.

They remained silent when she relaxed controls on banks using customers’ money to engage in speculation (this led to the 2008 crash).

Also the poll-tax was brought in and these 50 were impotent on that as well.

The choice facing Scotland is stark.

We can have a Brexit that we did not vote for that will cost the economy between £12-16 billion per year or independence which presents risks but better choices that only the people of Scotland will be able to make.

Alan Hinnrichs. 2 Gillespie Terrace, Dundee.

Beveridge envisioned a system that was intended to mobilise, not demobilise, and I am delighted that Dundee has a similar vision and will provide a home for Scotland’s new and forthcoming social security system that will endeavour to treat people by the principles of dignity and fairness