Letter: A good deal to be said for PR system

What does he prefer? Autocracy, dictatorship, a government elected by barely a third of the electorate lining the pockets of international bankers and taking us into illegal wars.

PR, with its deal-making, allows the individual's vote to have an influence well beyond polling day and places curbs on politicians' avaricious grasp for power. Already this shows in Holyrood, which has moved streets ahead of Westminster in its power for backbenchers and its sensitivity to public opinion.

Kenny goes on about the Nats clinging to their independence comfort blanket, but if - as any intelligent person would realise - Scotland suffers by being tied into Britain, then voters will respect the honesty of politicians who are willing to state the uncomfortable truth that by not considering independence we would be letting them down. They may not yet vote for independence, but their respect for the SNP would crash if they thought that we were just another bunch of British political hangers-on.

PR, though, will make it more difficult for the SNP to win independence. Is that a problem? I do not think so. When the Scottish electorate decide they want to stand on their own feet then I believe that Scotland's political parties will follow.

One of the ironies of Scottish politics is that it may not be the SNP which wins independence for the Scottish people but a coalition of SNP with a rump of the Labour Party or with the Scottish Tories and, although it is hard to believe, even the Lib-Dems.

George Leslie, North Glassock