‘Catalogue of scare stories’

SIR, – I refer to your story (November 13) headed “Fears over tax office jobs”.

Lewis Macdonald, north-east MSP, says the UK Government has “clearly no regard" for HMRC staff, referring to the planned job cuts announced recently. It's a shame he and others in his party did not come to this realisation last year, when they were instead posing for photographs with these people, telling them that their jobs would only be safe with a “No” vote in the independence referendum.

This is a story that has played out far too many times since September last year: scenarios that were only supposed to happen if people voted “Yes” have happened after a “No” vote regardless. It has happened so regularly that it is hard to believe they did not simply take a list of bad UK Government decisions which were in the pipeline and decided to try and blame them on a “Yes” vote instead.

I hope that, next time, voters remember this catalogue of scare stories which happened anyway, and politicians such as Mr Macdonald (assuming he is still a politician by then) will show a bit more decorum, and not exploit people's fears over job losses to get the result they desire.

Doug Daniel, Morningside Avenue,

Aberdeen.