Demands are ‘rumbling on’

SIR, – It would be difficult to top the shameless effrontery of the SNP and its leaders. Fresh from walking away from the agreement that the 2014 referendum would be for at least a generation, Nicola Sturgeon is accusing the prime minister of not keeping her promises to Scotland in full, and demanding yet more new powers for the Holyrood government; to say nothing about wishing a second referendum on the long-suffering Scottish people, although there is no sign of any national desire for one.

SNP demands have been rumbling on for many years. Unfortunately, devolution, instead of damping down the demands, merely fuelled them: this upsurge created the party we now have, blindly supported by many honest, but naïve people, who are being badly let down.

In government, the SNP has proved itself good only at brave rhetoric, empty promises and fatuous forecasts. Its record in government has been, by any standard, abysmal. It has been well catalogued: all the way from the police farce through closing call centres, failing education, declining health care, the scandal of the farmers’ subsidies, the unlawful, unwanted named person legislation, to the utterly shameful, ill-camouflaged, intention next year to seize £100million of north-east council tax, to be spent in the central belt, where it will sweeten SNP supporters.

John Duff, The Granary, Cluniebank Road,

Braemar.

SNP demands have been rumbling on for many years. Unfortunately, devolution, instead of damping down the demands, merely fuelled them: this upsurge created the party we now have