Green camouflage

Isn't it astonishing that the Scottish Green Party wants to separate Scotland from Engment. land when pollution knows no frontiers? The only reason there could be a climate conference in Glasgow later this year is because Scotland is part of the world's fifth-largest economy.

Economic growth is essential to improve environmental standards. Only countries which are rich enough can afford the technology to eliminate air, water, noise and visual pollution

I remember in communist times looking into the River Mulde in Colditz, Saxony, East Germany and seeing it running black. The East German authorities could not afford to clean it up. As economic growth developed under capitalism the water was returned to its natural state.

The trouble with the Greens is that they want economic development to stop. They want people out of private cars. They want international trade to be curtailed. They are opposed to the consumer society which has made life so comfortable for so many. They want to replace individual choice with state-directed edicts.

I'm in favour of clean air, clean water and environmental protection. I'm not in favour of making Scotland poorer, which would most certainly happen in the event of Scottish independence.

Even now the Greens support replacing gas central heating with electricity or heat pumps, which would cause heating bills to sky-rocket, plunging most of the country into fuel poverty.

A vote for the scottish greens at the May election is not only a vote for a second divisive independence referendum, it's a vote for eco-socialism to bring down our current economic model under the camouflage of green virtue signalling.

Their slogan is "vote like our future depends on it". Well put. To protect our future, vote for the Union.

WILLIAM LONESKIE Justice Park, Oxton, Lauder