Ruth right on nationalists

Sir, - I agree with Ruth Davidson that a pro-union party should not allow nationalists as members.

Labour and Lib Dems will be seen by union supporters to have gone soft on the issue.

The last two of our local councillors joined the SNP group in Aberdeenshire council and enabled them to take over the administration.

Their rewards were committee chair and vice-chair positions, with only six years’ experience between them.

The SNP’s practice of turning seemingly every issue into a case for independence shows that a vote for the SNP is a vote for separation.

The Conservatives are rising in the polls because they are the only truly unionsupporting party in Scotland, untainted by 17 years of underwhelming devolved government and, from what I read, campaigning on a joined-up vision for rebuilding Scotland within the United Kingdom.

Allan Sutherland. 1 Willow Row, Stonehaven.

The nationalists, as everyone knows, talk anti-austerity radicalism but walk a centrist Blairite agenda