What if Labour voters support the SNP?

Sir, – Regular readers of The Courier letters page may know me as a supporter of Scottish independence.

However, I caught a bit of Jeremy Corbyn’s launch of the Labour Party manifesto for the upcoming election on TV, and I found myself thinking ‘that’s good...I like that...great plan’.

But, the problem is, he won’t be elected!

Labour in Scotland is now a fringe party.

England almost always votes Conservative and seems to be getting more right wing by the day.

Furthermore if, by some miracle, Corbyn was elected, he would be undermined by the dissidents in his own party.

He would be slaughtered by the media and, even if by some further miracle he managed to stay in power for a while and achieved some of his objectives, he would probably be turfed out at the next election.

Inevitably the Tories would come back and reverse any progress he had made.

As they always do. Now given that this Labour manifesto is not too different from what most independence supporters want, and some of it is already being implemented in Scotland, would it not make sense for Labour supporters in Scotland to support the SNP, in the short term at least?

The independence movement in Scotland would then, I suggest, be unstoppable, and once independence is gained, politics in Scotland would re-align; the SNP, which accommodates a wide range of political views, would split and there would almost certainly be a leftist majority in the country.

We could then make long term plans for a fairer country, without the constant threat, as in the UK, that the Tories will be back shortly, to reinstate Boris, or Rees Mogg and others of their rapacious ilk, and reassert the rule of the rich.

Les Mackay. 5 Carmichael Gardens, Dundee .

not leaving the EU (£50 billion ) would pay for it more than four times over.

As the little meerkat says, “Simples’’.

Nick Dekker. 1 Nairn Way, Cumbernauld.