Arrogant Alex

Published on 16/07/2012 00:00

I NOTE that every time someone writes to the press expressing concern about the SNP’s aim to break away from the UK, there is an immediate response from the Nationalists accusing us, the writers, of being Unionists. Up till now I have always thought 
of ­myself as being a voter who probably has Liberal Democrat leanings

The reason for people like me writing to The Scotsman is because we have no confidence in the First Minister and other leading SNP figures.

Just about every day they are bombarded with questions, both in and out of the Scottish Parliament about their separatist policies. If you watch First Minister’s Questions on Thursdays you will soon realise that he never gives anyone a straight answer.

And then of course there was his choice remark at the end of one session: “Let my people go”. Later in the week Annabelle Goldie queried whether he had forgotten the second part of the quotation from Moses: “So that they may worship me”.

The most recent show of arrogance concerns Mr Salmond’s refusal to reveal whether legal advice was received on an independent Scotland’s status in Europe. Will he just “cock a snoot” at the ruling of the Scottish Information Commissioner, and enter into a legal battle at the taxpayers’ expense?

ROBERT IG SCOTT

Northfield

Ceres