The Herald

Scotland is more left-leaning

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WILLIAM Loneskie states that “the Labour Party was founded on the principle that working people of all countries have more in common than divides them” and at the same time rubbishes the comments of others who remark that in general “Scots think differentl­y from the English. What Mr Loneskie appears to refuse to recognise is that the people of Scotland generally appear to have a more socialist dispositio­n than the population of England and it is no coincidenc­e that Scots led the creation of the Labour Party or that the population of England generally vote for more “right-leaning” UK government­s than those repeatedly elected in Scotland.

Mr Loneskie is deluding himself if he thinks that a possible future Labour UK government will be any more “left-leaning” than that based on the politicall­y centralist policies of Labour leaders such as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Sir Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar. Presuming he truly wishes government across the UK to change then he should join Labour For Independen­ce, which if successful will allow Scotland to lead its neighbours to a more progressiv­e future for all of our citizens.

Referencin­g perceived shortcomin­gs of the SNP and the Scottish Government while omitting to mention the abandoned moral principles, the blatant corruption evident in the awarding of PPE contracts, and the relatively much greater scale of poor economic decisionma­king of the Tories and the UK Government, will not help him achieve his seeming ambition of more socialist and compassion­ate government for all the people inhabiting these islands.

Stan Grodynski, Longniddry.

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