Letters to the press, 08/04/22: Scotland could do so much better. Will railways be another disaster? Poll predictions awry. SNP make me feel guilty to be proud.

I note another shocking Herald headline (“Delays see cancer patients suffer severe complications”, April 7). Add in the loss of life due to A&E queues which have been well documented recently and which speak volumes for the current Government’s approach that it can allow this situation to happen whilst its focus is concentrating on another independence referendum. The SNP claim of Scotland being the 14th-richest country in the world and set for future glory looks threadbare when it cannot close the attainment gap nor stop so many families living in poverty nor even run the health service efficiently after almost 15 years in power. It has enough current powers to make a difference if it was able to. Scotland could and must do so much better but it can’t under the fantasy politics of our present Government. Dr Gerald Edwards, Glasgow.

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Should we really be cheering the fact the railways have been nationalised in that everything the SNP has taken over has been an unmitigated disaster? They have not taken charge of anything and made a success of it so why should the railways be any different? Anthony Brunton, Kinross.

Opinion polls predicting the SNP will win 45 per cent of first preference votes in the May council election could be as wildly wrong as they were 2017 when a survey predicted 47 per cent and they actually got 32 per cent of the vote and 36 per cent of the seats. In that election, only 610,000 out of Scotland’s 4.3million electorate could be bothered voting for the party of independence. It will be interesting to see how Ferguson Marine, Covid and the decline in Scotland’s local public services affects the result this year. Allan Sutherland, Stonehaven, Kincardineshire.

Nicola Sturgeon has allegedly said that there will be no draft independence Bill put in front of Parliament before the local elections. This act of betrayal should be her last as first minister. It has been obvious for years Sturgeon has no intention of ever holding a new plebiscite. Instead, she has strung the movement along with nebulous announcements and ever-shifting timetables. Sturgeon has quite frankly behaved like Bernie Madoff forever promising the gullible more returns from her well of credulity Under Sturgeon the SNP is a ponzi scam. A racket intended to keep the very mediocre Sturgeon loyalists in employment at the taxpayers’ expense. Sturgeon is an extreme egotist who loves the limelight. Elsie McSelfle is an appropriate moniker. Her attempt to imitate Hillary Clinton and call for a no-fly zone over Ukraine was embarrassing. Sturgeon’s desire to virtue signal and brandish her “woke” credentials could have led to a third world war. She begged Boris Johnson for permission to hold an independence referendum. This reduced Scotland to a colony. Sturgeon spent four years campaigning with neocons and neoliberals to reverse Brexit down south instead of getting independence. In truth, the biggest barrier to Scotland getting independence isn’t the Tories or the media. It’s Sturgeon and her woke cult cronies. The job of the national movement should be to remove her and the hangers-on from office. Alan Hinnrichs. Gillespie Terrace, Dundee.

My wife and I were in a restaurant in Essen, Germany, on Saturday night. Our waiter moved there from the horrors of Kosovo in the 1990s. He asked where I came from, and when I said Scotland his face lit up and he talked of his love of Braveheart, the romance, heroism, scenery and Mel Gibson’s acting. I couldn’t help telling him of the factual inaccuracy, and, thinking of the pictures I’d just seen on social media of the several hundred William Wallace and Flora MacDonald wannabes marching in Arbroath, how it had been weaponised by nationalists to the point where it just made people like me angry. Then I thought of how, as schoolkids in the 60s, we loved the tales of Wallace and Bruce, Livingstone, Watt and Logie Baird and felt bad that I’d downplayed all this to the waiter. So when he came back I tried to explain all that but my ramshackle German wasn’t up to the job of describing the complex process of why and how people like me have lost our pride and confidence in our country to the incompetence, jingoism fantasies and knuckle-dragging core of the SNP. Allan Sutherland, Willow Row, Stonehaven.

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