Backing union

OF ALL possible arguments that could be used for justifying Scotland’s separation from the rest of the UK, surely that employed by Bruce Skivington (Letters, 23 March) must be the most absurd?

He asks how can you keep together two countries with such widely different political views? Perhaps that question could best be answered by the Unites States, whose eminently successful union incorporates states and people whose political views are greatly more diverse than those of regions and countries of the UK. Or the German lander, again widely different views being held in areas and people of another most successful country.

In fact every thriving nation in the free world contains people holding sometimes extremely different political views.

Alexander McKay

New Cut Rigg

Edinburgh