How can it be in our interests to quit UK then be adrift from EU till we can rejoin?

As the SNP announce they are back on a “campaign footing” following a nationwide day of action on Saturday, SNP depute leader Keith Brown said: “We are excited about the conversations that we are going to be having with people up and down the country today” (“SNP activists step up independence drive on national action day”, The Scotsman, 29 September).

Yet as the people of Scotland are reminded that no matter what the majority of us want the SNP will never give up on trying to break up the UK, Mr Brown’s “excitement” is unlikely to be shared by many of the rest of us. Brexit is the current “trigger” of choice for SNP agitation, yet the last couple of years have left Scotland largely unmoved by the nationalists’ unofficial campaign to promote the EU as being better for us than the UK.

If the “campaign” is now officially underway, Nicola Sturgeon will perhaps, in the interests of full disclosure, explain at the SNP conference how it will be in all our interests to not only break away from the UK, but leave ourselves adrift from the EU too for the decade or so that it will take to restructure our economy to meet the EU’S joining criteria.

KEITH HOWELL

West Linton, Peeblesshire

Gill Turner (Letters, 30 September), interprets the People’s Vote campaign by Scottish separatist standards as an attempt to rerun referendums until they get the answer they want.

Rather it is a way of making sure that the UK parliament cannot lead the UK towards a disastrous Brexit through an unholy alliance of anti-eu hard right Tory and hard left Labour MPS backed by SNP MPS who will find a spurious reason to abstain as they prefer to harm the UK than support Scotland.

Had Scotland voted Yes in 2014 we would have found that the £200 million bill for separation (less than the SNP administration’s overspend on IT projects) was a fantasy, as were the oil revenue predictions, Nicola Sturgeon’s letter of advice was a fiction so we’d be heading out of the EU early and that no deal on leaving the UK could be negotiated by March 2016.

I would have expected another vote to stop Scotland being led to disaster then, too.

(DR) S J CLARK

Easter Road, Edinburgh

The Scottish Government keep banging on about Scotland requiring a different immigration policy from the rest of the UK.

This is, of course, complete nonsense. All immigrants could potentially settle in Scotland. That they chose to live elsewhere has more to do with possible friends and family already living in this country, job prospects and the like.

At present we attract less immigrants per head of population than the rest of the UK.

If the SNP Government want to encourage more immigrants to come to Scotland they need to make it a more attractive place to live. This involves better job prospects, schools, housing, education, health provision, tax policy etc.

It is a damning verdict on 11 years of SNP government that they cannot even attract our fair share of immigrants to Scotland compared to the rest of the country.

JACK WATT

St Ola, Orkney