Homeward bound

It seems that SNP representatives just can’t help themselves when it comes to expressing their prejudice against people who do not meet their exacting standards to prove they

are sufficiently Scots to represent a Scottish parliamentary constituency. A constituency, moreover, which sends MPS to the British Parliament.

Thus, Graham Lindsay, an SNP councillor who wishes to stand against Luke Graham, MP for Ochil and South Perthshire says he will send the latter “homeward”, because he wasn’t born in Scotland (Scotsman, 1 October).

Strange, then, that (I assume) Mr Lindsay is quite happy for Angus Robertson and Mike Russell to have been SNP ministers when they too were born in England and, I understand that both are only half-scots! Mind you, a lot of SNP supporters are only halfscots, but holding an SNP membership card makes them feel more Scots than those of us who are Scots on both sides of the family.

ANDREW HN GRAY Craiglea Drive, Edinburgh

If, for example, an elected local councillor of the nationalist German AFD asserted in a campaign video that the constituency was his patch and that he would send a Turkishborn member of the German parliament homeward, there would be a huge uproar and the party leadership would come under serious pressure.

But the local councillor of the Scottish National Party can say the same thing about an English-born MP and seems to get away with it. Ironically, the leader of the SNP was invited last month to Germany to receive a high-profile press accolade for standing up for liberal European values.

REGINA ERICH Willow Row, Stonehaven