A new union

Jim Fairlie (Letters, 12 April) was in the past a leading member of the SNP, with whose opinions I often agreed.

I regretted when he left the party over a disagreement, rather than staying to argue his views from inside. I have personally had mixed views on European Union membership, though I do not believe these amount to “confusion”.

I expect the EU to enable a seamless transition for Scotland from membership as part of the UK to membership as an independent state.

I believe we should welcome this, but should it not happen, I am happy for Scotland to join Norway, Switzerland and others in prosperity outwith the EU.

There are many forms of currency union. I have personally lived and worked in two countries in such unions. Their finance ministers may have had problems but things seemed to me to work satisfactorily.

David Stevenson

Blacket Place

Edinburgh

Brian Monteith (“Farage hits ­Nationalists where it hurts on ‘freedom’”, Perspective, 14 April) hits upon an important, and old truth – the SNP wishes to take us out of one union (the British one), and sign us up to another (the European one).

In terms of freedom and independence, this is nonsense.

William Ballantine

Dean Road

Bo’ness, West Lothian