Getting it wrong

Most of us will remember when Nicola Sturgeon was promoted as the best thing in politics since sliced bread. She even made it into the world’s top 50 most powerful women. Look what has happened since. The headline “Sturgeon more worried about protecting herself than party” (Scotsman 10 August) is just the tip of the iceberg. It is indeed her cloistering herself with only Murrell and Swinney that has led to a terribly blinkered view of how to govern Scotland for the benefit of all.

First, most of us do not want independence, particularly the unplanned, unworkable and uncosted version currently on offer.

We do not want to be the highest taxed part of the UK. We do not want to have a second-rate educational system and contrived entry requirements for universities. We do not want a punitive tax system on the housing market and we do not want endless free handouts that are neither properly costed but done mainly for political gain.

With every successive vote, SNP support drops. DR GERALD EDWARDS

Broom Road, Glasgow