Mad ‘mandate’

It seems that Scottish nationalists are getting terribly excited at the thought that a sizeable win at the Scottish elections next year would somehow give them the right to demand a second refer endum.

I don’t get that. A referen - dum is a referendum and an election is an election.

By their logic, Scotland’ s football team beating England’ s World Cup winning team in 1967 would have made us world champions. Right?

However, it still doesn’ t answer a very important question: if we have a second referendum, what was the purpose of the first one? I have never had a satisfactory response to that question. We got a clear result, but of course, we didn’t get the RIGHT result. Once we get that, we will never have any other referendum. Am I right, or am I right?

PETER HOPKINS Morningside Road, Edinburgh