Scottish pig in a poke

SIR – I want to buy a car today, but the seller will not tell me how much it will cost; nor will they tell me the emissions tax, insurance bracket or the running costs or how many miles per gallon it will go, but they insist that I will be better off if I buy it anyway. Am I being naive or gullible if I purchase it?

After that I will go to cast my vote in an election that may decide if Scotland chooses to become independent, but I am unsure of the initial cost or what tax increases or service cuts or continuing austerity may come into effect.

However, I’m assured if I vote for it, I will be better off anyway. Am I being naive or gullible if I vote for this?

Buying the car looks less risky. Allan Thompson

Glasgow

SIR – My father was a world-class nuclear scientist from Thurso.

Shortly before I was born he was relocated to the Risley HQ of the UK Atomic Energy Authority in Cheshire.

Despite this, in a recent visit to Glasgow on business, I was the subject of racial discrimination because I was identified as English.

Black clouds of racist hatred and enmity against the English have descended over Scotland. I trust that the vast majority of thoroughly decent and respectable Scots will utterly reject the rhetoric of the Scottish National Party.

Derek E Eames

Liverpool

SIR – Nicola Sturgeon’s desire to expel nuclear submarines from Faslane on the Clyde is a bizarre and contradictory piece of political doublespeak.

She wishes to be part of the European Union, which is fully committed to Nato and whose defence of Europe rests on the threat of nuclear weapons, yet she wishes to leave the United Kingdom, which is part of the Nato alliance. Does she not understand how the Nato alliance works?

The United States constantly calls for European members to contribute more to Nato for their own defence. What is Scotland going to offer as a replacement? Whisky?

Ann Parker Nottingham