Letters to the press, 03/02/22: "It will be interesting to see what the new indy prospectus that the SNP/Greens are spending £700k on has to say about who pays Scotland's £9 billion annual pension bill"

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford and Finance Secretary Kate Forbes claim the UK would pay an independent Scotland’s pensions. So why, in a leaked document in 2013, did John Swinney warn that Scotland might not afford to pay them fully? What’s changed, other than the lunatics taking over the indy asylum? It will be interesting to see what the new indy prospectus that the SNP/Greens are spending £700k on has to say about who pays Scotland’s £9 billion annual pension bill. And what Rishi Sunak and rUK voters have to say about it. Allan Sutherland, Stonehaven, Aberdeen.

We’re hearing of four Russian aircraft flying around the north of Scotland with RAF aircraft being scrambled. Can you imagine the future of an independent Scotland, with a limited defence force, warding off a pre-emptive attack by Russia? Can you imagine the cost of introducing enough armed forces to protect ourselves? Mr Putin could, with great ease, simply land at Prestwick Airport. Let’s see what it says in the next white paper on an independent Scotland. I Mackay, East Kilbride.

For the third year running the results of the qualification exams in Scotland will be affected by the pandemic. Despite this blow to a further year of children their future is being attacked in another way by the SNP/Green alliance, with its relentless pursuit of another independence referendum. When will the Scottish Government stop being so blinkered and actually consider the huge upheaval it is proposing for everyone? Independence not only does not offer a tangible solution to current problems, it brings a whole raft of new ones. The exam board are having to be “generous” in order to make sure no pupil loses out. The world will not be quite so generous to an independent Scotland. Gerald Edwards, Glasgow.

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