The Scotsman

So satisfied

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It is revealing to note in the Scottish Household Survey (Scotsman, 5 September) that public satisfacti­on with health, education and transport services is much higher among those who actually use those services compared to those who rely on hostile media coverage for their perception­s.

At some point, Scotland’s opposition parties are going to stop pointing at negative newspaper headlines as evidence that voters are fed up of the SNP. It’s lazy politics from people who have no coherent political platform of their own.

Labour wants to massively increase taxes which can’t be done in a purely Scottish context by using the limited devolution powers. When asked on STV on Tuesday evening, Ruth Davidson could not say what she has delivered for Scotland and has meekly accepted the Tories’ disastrous Brexit plans, including Westminste­r’s power grab of devolved issues.

Others, like Alexander Mckay (Letters, 5 September), mistakenly believe that an independen­t Scotland would have a £13 billion deficit when this figure clearly relates to estimates of our position under Westminste­r’s economic and taxation priorities.

Together with a desire to become like any other

normal country, delivering a better Scotland compared to the alternativ­es elsewhere in the UK explains why the SNP remains a united party with an increasing membership and a remarkable lead in the opinion polls after 11 years in power.

MARY THOMAS Watson Crescent, Edinburgh

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