Democracy must work, and be seen to work, come Thursday's election
Some people are really gullible. The last thing Nicola Sturgeon wants is a Brexit.
The reality is that Scots may be reluctant to leave the UK when the issues of currency, borders, the end of open trade and people movement within the UK, £15 billion deficit, and a queue to join the EU kick in.
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Hide AdAnd anyway, the 60 per cent poll ratings she requires to call a referendum are unlikely, especially with all the cuts and broken promises such as fracking, that will happen after 5 May.
She would win a lot more votes if she said independence was off the agenda until the SNP had proved they can reverse the nine years of non-achievent and run the country properly.
Allan Sutherland
Willow Row, Stonehaven
We have two votes, and history should have taught us that Nationalism and a one-party state can be a dangerous cocktail.
Good democratic government needs a strong opposition.
John Trotter
Mordington, Berwickshire
Nicola Sturgeon in a TV interview redefines “the democratic will of the people” re another UK break-up referendum. Apparently our democratic will wasn’t the outcome of the September 2014 referendum. It will be the result of a handful of opinion polls that happen to suit her divisive, separatist dogma.
And do some No voters really still intend to vote SNP on Thursday?
Martin Redfern
Royal Circus, Edinburgh