Going alone a disaster

deSPITe public services in Scotland being the worst in living memory it seems to make no difference to the SNP’s popularity.

On this basis the excellent article in the Scottish daily Mail, which revealed that the deal to save the aluminium smelter in lochaber could end up costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds, will no doubt attract even more votes and see an SNP landslide at Thursday’s council elections.

What will it take for independence supporters to realise that going it alone without Westminster support would be an economic disaster? ROBERT WILSON, Newarthill,

Lanarkshire.