BBC unfair to SNP

ly dismal record in running the economy, probably indefinitely as they fail to meet key criteria for accession.

It would be utter madness and/or extreme recklessness that took Scotland out of both the UK and the EU.

DAVID K ALLAN Haddington, East Lothian While Andrew Neil is noted for his forensic political questioning it was disappointing that during the Sunday Politics show on BBC1 this week he repeatedly allowed the Scotland Minister, David Mundell, to misleadingly declare that the Scottish public knew at the time of the Scottish Referendum there would be a referendumontheuk’smembership of the European Union.

This, of course, was said in a misleading attempt to deflect from the fact that David Cameron and those supporting the Better Together campaign had declared that Scotland’s membership of the EU could only be safeguarded by remaining in the UK.

The fact is that at the time of the Scottish Referendum it not only seemed unlikely that the Conservatives would be reelected to government, never mind with an overall majority, but uncertain in that event that Mr Cameron would actually deliver an EU referendum.

Perhaps if Mr Neil questioned members of the Westminster Government with the same acute vigour with which he seems to interrogate members of the Scottish Government he might go some way to redressing the persistent claims of bias and partisanship levelled at the BBC.

STAN GRODYNSKI Longniddry, East Lothian