Too much hate
tion of the NC500 route I am in total agreement with Iain Masterton regarding single track roads. We have to educate drivers on the basic rules of these roads – five or six cars driving nose to tail will never work as the passing places are not designed for them. If you slow down to allow a space in front, then you get overtaken.
Driving on Skye this year was a continuous problem – there were too many cars and too many motor homes.
KEITH MATHIESON Bon Scott Place, Kirriemuir vote and 44.0 per cent of the regional lists vote. And last year the SNP won 48.8 per cent of the seats with 46.5 per cent of the constituency vote and 41.7 per cent of the regional lists vote.
While clearly more proportionate than first past the post, the Holyrood voting system can never be entirely proportionate while we continue to have 73 constituency seats and only 56 regional lists seats. This imbalance may or may not be desirable, but it means that the party which takes the largest number of constituency seats has a built-in advantage in terms of the total number of seats won.
Of course, Donald Dewar thought the party winning the largest number of constituency seats would always be Labour and, especially in 2011, the SNP benefited from his decisions regarding the Holyrood voting system!
KW MCKAY CBE Easter Duthil, Carrbridge There’s a whiff of the 1930s about this decade with noisy, belligerent politicians like Farage, Salmond or Trump and their cult-like followers spreading hatred and division.
Targeting some of the most vulnerable communities, they stir up a sense of grievance which results in no discernible benefit to these communities beyond discord and ill-feeling.
All three employ the tautology of “civic” nationalism but behind such semantics Hitler’s “eternal Jew” has simply been replaced by Mexican, Muslim, English or EU bogeymen. (REV DR) JOHN CAMERON,
Howard Place, St Andrews you are not allowed an amplifier seems a bit crazy when I could sit in my car with the radio blaring out and window open. Is that against the law? If yes, why?
Is there a noise level that is legal?
ROY MCINTOSH Victoria Road, Falkirk