Lifeboatlesson

When I read the news these days, I feel like those poor souls on the Titanic when she hit that iceberg – time to don a lifejacket and line up at a lifeboat station.

Time to get out from under a corrupt Westminster government. Scotland needs independence and fast. Unless the Supreme Court rules for a referendum, we need to vote for it and get out of a union that is now dragging us into poverty.

Yet there are still folk who ignore what is going on because they lack for nothing and feel that voting Conservative keeps them “upper class”, and special. They ignore news that Boris Johnson allowed a plane-load of dogs to be evacuated from Afghanistan leaving endangered Afghans who had worked for the British forces to the mercy of the Taliban. They see no wrong in bypassing the civil service vetting of potential office-bearers in national organisations and appointing Conservative donors and supporters. They encourage the headlong enlargement of the House of Lords by appointing Conservative cast-offs as the UK shuffles closer and closer to fascism.

A Scotland, already self-sufficient in energy, water and able to trade with Europe and the UK would thrive. We have a lifeboat and should use it while we still can. ELIZABETH SCOTT

Edinburgh