It’s our land And repeat

It is truly appalling seeing a politician tr ying to deny the will of the people.

How can Alister Jack possibly justify saying that the people of Scotland have no right to decide their own future for 25 or even 40 years?

C DONALDSON

Moffat

Let’s say there is a referendum within the generation and that it goes for a Yes. Can those who op p o s e d h ave a r e -re fe re ndum? Or is this like planning applications? Keep battering away until you get your plans through, build the edifice and you’re stuffed.

Why should a referendum only work one way? Is this not an argument to suppor t the “once in a generation” referendum, other wise we have society and government tied up going nowhere?

A bit like Covid, where gove r n i n g h a s c o l l a p s e d . B u t that’s another debate!

ANDREW FORREST Belgrave Road, Edinburgh to overcome the drawbacks of single issue referendums, decided on a simple major - it y, eg, Brexit, or indep endence. S erious constitutional change should not be decided on a simple majority, and his solution is for a second confirmatory referendum.

Another avenue to approach would be to copy other countries, ie, to ensure a prop er majorit y, hurdles should be put in place to be achieved, eg, 55 per cent or 60 per cent of the electorate must be in favour for the issue to go ahead. Brexit should never have gone ahead on 52 p er cent of the voting public (and I support Brexit).