Perfidious Albion advances the indy cause

Sir, – Robert I G Scott (“The answer remains emphatically ‘no’”, Letters, October 22) buries his head in the sand and informs us, “the people of Scotland have made it quite clear that they do not wish to leave the UK.”

He asks what grounds the SNP have for their continuing pursuit of independence.

Westminster’s failure to honour the 2014 “vow”, signed by Cameron, Clegg and Miliband, promising more powers to Scotland if it rejected inpendence, are grounds enough.

Mr Scott believes his own country’s citizens are powerless in the face of London’s establishment, and that any course taken without their approval would be, “irrelevant and illegal”.

What a sad reality this “union of equals” is to the likes of Mr Scott, who describes the democratically elected government of his own country as the enemy within.

Sovereignty in Scotland lies with the people of Scotland, no parliamentary or crown authority outranks it.

This was officially reinforced and endorsed by Westminster only last year.

Subsequent events have revealed how contemptuously perfidious Albion once again waives the rules when dealing with their Caledonian neighbour and partner.

Finally, the gentleman isn’t the first unionist to use the, “diabolic state” of a Scottish economy run by London as an argument for continuation of the same.

Which, perversely, since Mr Scott himself is unhappy with our economic performance, are yet more grounds for pursuing Scottish independence.

Ken Clark.

15 Thorter Way, Dundee.