ADAM Tompkins lapses into lists of unionist rhetoric on the challenges of Scottish nationhood in support of his thesis that the current absence of active campaigning indicates the constitutional question is going into cold storage ("The signs of summer 2021 that it's all quiet on the second referendum front", The Herald, July 28).
As a constitutional lawyer he must be aware of the many new European nations that have been created in the last 30 years. Estonia, Bulgaria, Slovenia and the Czech Republic are examples of small countries which have emerged and flourished following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Miraculously, all of these nations gained statehood by executing the economic and administrative tasks Mr Tompkins opines would be impossible or ruinously expensive in a newly independent Scotland. Apparently, he believes that alone among the nations of Europe, Scotland, with its outstanding natural and human resources, could not provide services, pensions and security for its people.