SNP didn’t ask for referendum now

SIR, – If at the 2015 general election the SNP had won 35 seats it would have been regarded as a major success.

There was never any likelihood of them being able to hold on to all of their 56 seats, but the fact the SNP still has more seats than all the other parties in Scotland put together shows there is still a substantial number of people who wish to live in an independent Scotland. The SNP won 35 seats despite totally negative campaigning from the Tory, Labour and Lib Dem parties.

Theresa May said that now was not the time for another independence referendum. Nicola Sturgeon did not ask for an independence referendum now but for one between the autumn of 2018 and the spring of 2019 when the negotiations to leave the European Union should be complete.

I accept that at the moment there is a majority of people in Scotland who wish to remain part of the UK, but do they really believe that those of us who fear for the future of Scotland, being ruled by this far-right Tory party, should sit back and do nothing?

I believe that when this disastrous Brexit has happened, more and more people will wish to live in an independent Scotland and be part of the European Union.

In closing I would like someone who voted SNP in 2015 and Tory in 2017 to tell me why. W. A. Ross, Broomhill

Avenue, Aberdeen