Letter: Time to cut ties with the UK

I AGREE with Duncan Hamilton that small nations should bide their time in the Euro-political crisis, but does he really believe that “Cameron stormed out” (Insight, 4 December)?

Are we sure there was not a wee deal between Sarkozy and Cameron to present the former as more nationalist or even Gaullist to a pre-election French public, while Cameron is presented as being a bulldog to his Eurosceptic right?

Whatever they were playing at it was a dangerous game. The world is in the middle of a global financial crisis in which the “Eurozone crisis” barely stands out. The euro today is 30 per cent stronger than it was in 2007 (or the pound is 27 per cent weaker). The Eurozone debt is significantly less than that of the US and massively less than Japan’s. Fuel prices in the Eurozone are less than they are in the UK.

We are reduced to judging the EU’s success according to ratings supplied by a committee of six or seven “experts” at Standard and Poors – the same people who gave Lehman Bros a triple AAA rating just before they collapsed.

The important thing for Scotland is the enormous opportunity that is now opening up before us: 26 countries in Europe are going to be fairly disenchanted with the UK and may be open to all sorts of negotiation and engagement with a soon-to-be independent Scotland and might give us a stronger place in the world than can ever be attained in an isolationist Britain.

George Leslie, Fenwick