Snp/labour pact

So Nicola Sturgeon confirms the SNP would support and keep in power a minority Labour administration after June8.then,onaquidproquo basis, she’ll doubtless aim to extract indyref2 from Jeremy Corbyn on more preferential terms than from Theresa May.

But Scottish separatists whose raison d’etre is to break up the UK propping up a UK government? Seriously?

Ms Sturgeon knows this isn’t likely. Her personal popularity is waning and, in any case, the SNP is increasingly toxic in RUK. Let’s not forget this very prospect eased David Cameron to his 2015 victory.

Ms Sturgeon of course prefers a Tory to a Labour majority – for her Theresa May is a more useful pawn in her divisive political game than genuine socialist Mr Corbyn. Mr Corbyn has the potential to draw voters in the SNP heartlands away from the notion of an independent Scotland in a way Theresa May will always struggle to do.

Has Ms Sturgeon’s support for a Corbynled minority administration just ensured the Downing Street keys remain in Mrs May’s hands? Very possibly.

But either way, the ever canny Ms Sturgeon will try to turn the result into a victory. The nationalist narrative will either exhort us, in the longer term, to escape the oh so very different Tory UK or, come June 9, Ms Sturgeon will pressurise Labour into indyref2 on the SNP’S timetable and terms.

MARTIN REDFERN Merchiston Gardens, Edinburgh I received recently an SNP election communication with the message ‘Don’t let the Tories cut your pension’. Yet when it comes to care costs, Mrs May has indicated that there will be both a floor and a cap.

The floor was originally announced as £100,000, while the cap is as yet unspecified. The floor alone is some four times the amount the Scottish Government will leave the elderly. I leave your readers to judge the better offer.

DONALD THOMSON Salisbury Terrace, Aberdeen

I, like thousands of other Scots, will vote tactically on Thursday. We will vote for the candidate most likely to defeat the SNP.

Nicola Sturgeon is not prepared to respect the will of the people in the referendum vote in 2014 and is demanding another divisive independence vote as soon as possible and will do so again and again until she gets the result she wants.

That is not what I call democracy. She has split the country in two in a way that has never happened before.

I hope she suffers for her arrogance in the vote on Thursday.

JACK WATT Strome, St Ola, Orkney