Selfish young
The recent shocking scenes at the Daisy Nook country park rave were repeated at several other sites in England. Do young people have the right to break lockdown rules because they’re bored? If boredom and the adverse effects of social isolation are legitimate reasons for ignoring medical advice, what’s to stop any one of us from acting as if we’re not in the middle of a pandemic which could kill those youngsters’ parents and grandparents?
The revellers left enough rubbish to require 40 volunteers to fill 400 bin bags. They could have taken their empty beer cans away with them, since they managed to carry the full ones to the site with no difficulty. Do they think that they have the right to turn the countryside into a rubbish tip?
It wouldn’t be such a problem if these events were held indoors, as used to be the case. When our countryside is subjected to such despoilation it negates every warning about the human impact on our increasingly fragile planet.
I’m no grumpy oldie – I felt the same way about environmental (and other) issues at 18 years old as I do now. CAROLYN TAYLOR
Wellbank Broughty Ferry, Dundee
I note the latest claim by MP Pete Wishart that the rules governing referenda can be changed to suit the SNP’S own biased purpose. But it has to be stressed that the terms of the Scotland Acts are quite clear; and that they were accepted by all parties when the Scottish Executive was established by Parliament in 1998, with amendments in 2012.
Mr Wishart would certainly seem to have a vivid imagination if he believes that all gates are open to the SNP’S whims and beliefs. The constitution is a matter for the UK government and will remain so. The request from First Minister Alex Salmond to hold a referendum in 2014 on the question of Scotland becoming an independent country was granted by Westminster; the people of Scotland rejected the motion by a sizable majority.
As to Wishart’s reference to intervention by the EU in any such matter – what on earth has this got to do with them? It is a British constitutional matter, so is the sole responsibility of the UK government at Westminster.
Why is it that the SNP have