Vitriol is nothing new to the SNP

EUAN McColm is mistaken (Opinion, 25 November) – the vitriol and name-calling he decries is nothing new in Scottish politics. Those of us with long memories recall the vicious and very personal attacks launched by the SNP against Margaret Thatcher, and decrying someone’s patriotism because of the views they hold is an old SNP trick – this is the party after all which delivered SNP leaflets at the time of the 1997 referendum declaring that the only people who were against devolution were “anti-Scottish”.

What is different is that the other parties are now responding in kind, and as Corporal Jones pointed out, the SNP “don’t like it up ’em” and are now busy whingeing about it.

Ian Stuart, Dingwall