Protect us from the SNP

Nicola Sturgeon has again sworn to ‘protect Scotland from the Tories’, who are obviously still the Thatcherite bogeymen of her formative years and a necessary ‘other’ to her supposed ‘progressive’ ambitions.

The SNP has spent the past decade trying to protect children from their own families and people from themselves, with no real improvements.

The Nationalists have blamed ‘Wastemonster’, Trident, oil revenues (or the lack of), Brexit... everything but themselves.

Most SNP schemes place the onus on agencies above the individual, thus relegating them to mere actors without free will. Yet after more than a decade in power, health issues, addiction and poverty have risen.

Perhaps the people of Scotland don’t need protection. What we need is a government with realistic proposals, a realistic view of the issues, and policies that treat individuals as independent agents with rights as well as responsibilities, rather than people who constantly require ‘protection’.

DAVID BONE, Girvan, Ayrshire.

Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to protect Scotland from the Tories. With another £3billion coming in the way of Barnett consequentials, why exactly do we need protected?

Her statement to andrew Neil during her TV interview that the SNP will form a ‘Central Bank’ and have ‘the infrastructure to support it’ after independence is laughable considering that the devolved power on benefits has been handed back to Westminster because the infrastructure for it is years behind schedule.

Scotland is more in need of protection from the SNP than it is from the Tories – and Miss Sturgeon calling Boris Johnson ‘unfit for office’ is a comment that should instead be directed to her mirror.

IAN BALLOCH, Grangemouth, Stirlingshire.