Police should have been called over missing piece of Stone of Destiny

Sir, – It is very big of the SNP men in grey kilts to agree to return the missing chip from the Stone of Destiny, now accommodated in Perth Museum.

The chip was never theirs to keep. It is part of a 1,000-year-old national symbol, above all politics, and something which has to be treated with respect.

In 1950, many people in

Scotland, perhaps most, will have cheered on those who had the initiative to bring the Stone of Destiny back to Scotland, but we now see the whole picture.

In doing so, they dropped it and broke it.

Can you imagine the furore there would have been if the English managed to break it?

It would be pandemonium, the country would probably have become independent there and then. But when Scottish nationalists break it, we’re not supposed to say anything.

Not only that, we see now that a chip was removed from the stone.

So not only was it broken in two, but defaced as well.

The chip was gifted to Alex Salmond, who thought so little of it that it appears he had forgotten where it was. Our MP Pete Wishart should have contacted police instead of coaxing colleagues into giving it up, for which we are supposed to be grateful.

The presumption and arrogance of all this astounds me.

The silence even more so. The people who split the stone have also split the country.

The stone can never be fixed, but perhaps the country can if we get rid of this lot from government, at every level, and teach young people what they (the SNP) really think about Scottish traditions and history.

Perhaps the display in Perth can do that?

Victor Clements. Aberfeldy.