SNP has no plan for Scotland

Sir, - SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford wants to talk about what an independent Scotland would look like.

Wasn’t that what the White Paper of 2013 was meant to tell us?

Wouldn’t it have been appropriate to have that at least sketched out for us before the SNP Government forced a motion in favour of a new Scottish referendum through the Scottish Parliament?

Pro-union people have always said that the SNP has been offering us a pig in a poke. Now Mr Blackford inadvertently admits that.

Mr Blackford’s other admission - again probably inadvertent – is that he looks forward to discussing what a separate Scotland would look like “over the coming years”.

That is a clear indication that he does not envisage a new referendum taking place any time soon.

How many coming years is he talking about? Perhaps as many as would genuinely constitute a generation?

The SNP has no plan for a separate Scotland, and above all it has no economic or financial plan.

Voters have for years been asked to vote for it and its project (secession from the UK) on the basis of nothing tangible.

At least Mr Blackford has now admitted what many of us already knew. Jill Stephenson. Glenlockhart Valley, Edinburgh.

“Our onceproud show scheme (the Aberdour-Abercromby Street complex), now suffers the same problems as our fellow Lochee citizens