No vote, no say

I am tired of people attempting to undercut the government by comparing the actual number of votes cast for the SNP to the total number of registered voters.

It is indeed pathetic, as G W Stewart says (Letters, 23 September), that only 50 per cent of those entitled to vote took the trouble to do so, but that fact carries no weight whatever, either moral or political, as an argument against the government or its mandate.

The present SNP government, like any government in any democracy, was elected by those who voted: those who had the chance to vote and failed to take it do not enter into the equation.

Derrick McClure

Rosehill Terrace

Aberdeen