Scottish secession

sir – We all have a Christmas wish and mine is simple. I really wish the media in its entirety would start to call the SNP’S desire unilaterally to leave the United Kingdom by its proper name. This is not “independence”. It is secession.

The desire of Nicola Sturgeon is that Scotland secede from the union of the UK. Why the collective timidity? Secession is not an attractive word but it is the accurate one.

Even if Scotland did accomplish unilateral secession, it would not be independent but, being functionally bankrupt without the habitual huge economic support of England, would become the servant of its international creditors. Frederick Forsyth

Beaconsfield, Berkshire