Statehood will offer certainty
He asks “Why is it, for the separatists, that Scottish nationhood can be realised only by leaving one of the most enduring and successful political unions the world has ever seen?” This combines the wrong question and a canard. Nationhood already exists and it is the realisation of statehood that those in favour of independence seek. I accept that the political union has to date been enduring but it is a measure of its lack of success that there is to be an independence referendum next year, and instead of being described as one of a number surely the union is better described as a unique anomaly.
Andrew Parrott, Perth