Scotland can follow Irish route to success - your views
Scotland can follow Irish route to success
When David Smith (letters, December 24) writes that Scotland does four times more trade with the UK than the EU, he should study the case of Ireland, which as an independent country in the EU now has a higher GDP (wealth) per head than the UK.
When Ireland joined the European Economic Community in 1973, 55 per cent of exports went to the UK. This has since dropped to nine per cent, while the EU now accounts for almost half of all Irish exports.
Instead of queues and red tape at Dover, Ireland has established numerous ferry routes to France, Belgium, Spain and Portugal whereas Scotland relies on three sailings a week from Rosyth to Zeebrugge.
MY sister’s husband has been in hospital for many months, not related to Covid, and she has to send a parcel with clean clothing etc via taxi some miles away which is left at a desk at the entrance to the hospital (‘Invaluable’ volunteers reveal cheeky items family try to pass to patients, December 27). Regarding the paragraph taking dirty clothing home to be washed, that’s not just patients that do that as staff have also to remove uniform and place it in their own washing machine. In years gone by we were not allowed to go out and about in uniform and all uniforms were washed at Central laundry – we never had infections linked to that. Yes, there were a few cases of wound infections, but nothing major.
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