Indyref BOGOF

Mairianna Clyde generates a lot of heat, but precious little light( Letters ,8 September) disparaging Unionists for daring to oppose the delusional nationalist doctrine. It is disappointing that she descends to using the “too wee, too poor and to o stupid” line. Surely she knows that is a nationalist invention?

She mentions the notion of an “independent Scotland” avoiding the fact that the SNP don’t want Scotland to be independent at all, but to become a small co gin the“European empire”, as an EU official recently called it. We don’t hear much about that in SNP propaganda, do we?

Ms Clyde should be aware that the SNP’S attempt to drag Scotland out of the UK was rebuffed comprehensively with over 23 p er cent more people voting to remain in the UK than voted to leave. Both Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond said repeatedly that the 2014 referendum was “once in a generation” and “once in a lifetime”, so I hope that she will accept what they themselves have said?

She and others should understand that the referendum of 2014 was not a “BOGOF”. It was held to decide Scotland’s place in the UK. It was not an election that one has every five years. It was a one-off to confirm or deny whether S cots wanted to remain in the Union and that decision was clear.

PETER HOPKINS Morningside Road, Edinburgh

It must be exhausting to exist in a state of permanent outrage. Marianna Clyde expressed how she felt “offended” by the fact that other correspondents persist in holding viewpoints contrary to her own.

This is an increasingly common position for some people of her persuasion in this, the age of the Snowflake Generation. Bear in mind that this is the same mentality which is bringing us the Scottish Government’ s anti-libertarian Hate Crimes Bill. As a tolerant society which values freedom of thought, let’s be mindful of Voltaire’s remark that, “I do not agree with what you say, but I would die fighting for your right to say it!”

MARTIN O’GORMAN Littlejohn Road, Edinburgh