Yes to integrity

One of the main reasons I will be voting Yes in the referendum next year, is that I wish to see the (re)establishment of a traditional socialist Labour Party.

For too long the Labour Party has tried to widen its appeal by surrendering its ideology.

I look forward to a renewed political debate following Scottish independence, and I look forward to a true socialist Scottish Labour Party.

Gary McLelland

Glasgow

It is quite startling that two of your correspondents (Letters, 20 June) seek to separate Alex Salmond from the campaign to break up the UK.

It is almost as if the name is enough to lose referendum votes for those who wish Scotland to go it alone.

What a change from those heady days when the Nationalists would push electoral integrity to the limit by having “Alex Salmond for First Minister” written on the list MSPs’ ballot paper.

Mr Salmond may well think the present situation is a “phoney war” and he has not yet started.

The fact is, the pro-UK campaign has not started either and has merely stated a number of truths to counter assertions and best guesses on the separatist side. Its big guns have yet to appear.

The Salmond magic, if in truth it ever existed, has for 
certain gone, the young in particular are more than sceptical, and it is beginning to seem he is an asset to the pro-UK side.

Alexander McKay

Edinburgh