Letters
The SNP is by far the biggest flag carrier for the cause and the one that most people rally around, but it is not
the only one THE Wee Ginger Dug is quite right to point out that the SNP is just one strand in the independence movement; the many flowers of the 2014 referendum campaign demonstrated that convincingly (Desperate Tories trying to trick voters ahead of election, March 16). It is by far the biggest flag carrier for the cause and the one that most people rally around, but it is not the only one. All those who believe that Scottish voters have the right to choose to decide whether to become an independent country are supporters of democracy. Conversely those who oppose the right of Scottish voters to choose their future through their own parliament alone should be treated as a single group: the Anti-Democratic Axis (ADA). This shared lack of democratic legitimacy is what supporters of independence should draw to people’s attention in their campaigns.
Letters
The SNP and its leaders are not perfect, but it will fundamentally change when we achieve
our goal THERE is no middle way! Kevin McKenna and others with deep-rooted socialist beliefs need to decide whether they wish to have a realistic opportunity of achieving their ambition of a socialist state run from Holyrood, or they wish to consign future generations to more right-leaning government from Westminster (Here’s why the SNP better organise an indyref sooner rather than later, February 3). In today’s harsh political reality, the greater their efforts to undermine the First Minister, the SNP and the current SNP organisational structure (built up under Alex Salmond and earlier leaders of the SNP), the greater the likelihood that future generations will not inhabit a Scotland free to determine its own destiny!