Alexander's error
In what can only be described as a narcissistic and condescending article, disgraced ex-Labour leader Wendy Alexander assures us there's only one credible position on Calman: hers (Opinion, 25 November).
Why would anyone listen to what Ms Alexander has to say on such matters? It was she and her kind who assured us appeasing the SNP by devolving power to a Scottish Parliament would "kill nationalism stone dead". Eight years after the parliament was established, far from being stone dead, the SNP was alive, kicking and fully transformed from a small outfit on the fringes of politics to the governing party of Scotland.
Having had a coach and horses driven through the theory that you defeat nationalism by appeasing it, Ms Alexander and her fellow travellers would perhaps have been suitably chastened by the humiliation and resolved not to make the same mistakes again. If only.
With "unionists" like Wendy Alexander, who needs nationalists?
ALISTAIR HAW
Craigmillar Road
Glasgow
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