Appeasement of SNP will make things worse

Sir Keir Starmer’s plans for “new powers” for Holyrood are not the answer to any constitutional questions. We have heard all this before. Many will recall being told all those years ago by Labour that devolution would “kill nationalism stone dead”. did that work out? Labour MP Tam Dalyell and many others forecast the result of devolution in graphic detail and every single thing they forecast would happen, did happen.

Devolution killed Labour in Scotland and it is only now recovering.

The problem is that the SNP have no interest, none whatsoever, in a well-run and thriving Scotland. Much the opposite. They have only one aim – look at the “de facto referendum” plans, for example, and any well-meant proposals by Labour – or the Tories or Lib Dems – will be utilised in the greater battle as they see it and then mocked and ignored, as has happened time after time after time.

So, forget about more SNP appeasement; as it did in 1938, it only worsens matters.

ALEXANDER MCKAY

Edinburgh