Familiar claims

IN response to Alex Salmond establishing the Alba Party supposedly to build a ‘supermajority for independence’ in Holyrood, Nicola Sturgeon tells us Salmond ‘makes big claims that often don’t stand up to scrutiny’.

She should know – she echoed his every word for many years – such as repeatedly insisting, for example, that Scotland would undoubtedly thrive economically as an independent country? MARTIN REDFERN, Melrose, Roxburghshire.