Letters to the press, 13/05/22: SNP Westminster leader is an 'English' rose. Nicola would be better going on a ferry than going to the US. 800 extra GPs...in five years.

We are all painfully aware that Nicola Sturgeon sees it as her priority to have an independence referendum by 2023 despite there being no obvious demand for this. What is really an obvious demand, however, is the chance to see your medical GP face-to-face again. To this end, SNP Health Minister, Humza Yousaf, has”promised” to have 800 extra GPs in place but by 2027, five years from now. This must rank as one of the most shocking utterances from the SNP. The health of the nation matters so little yet an unwanted, expensive and damaging referendum does. How many diagnoses are going to be missed and sadly, lives lost, whilst the SNP pursues its pet project to the exclusion of all else? Dr Gerald Edwards, Glasgow.

It has been reported that Ian Blackford was wearing an ‘English’, rather than a ‘Scottish’ rose at the state opening of Parliament. After seeing a multitude of books on Scottish history and culture in the background of his party colleagues’ Zoom interviews over the last two years, you would have thought at least one of them might have read them at some point and told him. David Bone, Girvan, Ayrshire.

Douglas Cowe (P&J Letters, May 11) absolutely hits the nail smack bang on the head, with his telling facts about the SNP. The SNP are experts at manufacturing grievances against our United Kingdom, but useless at government. They are incapable of even building a couple of ferry boats, or of producing a sustainable economic plan for their so-called independent Scotland. During the 15 indyref2- obsessed years in control at Holyrood, the one thing the arrogant Nats have excelled at is squandering vast amounts of taxpayers’ money on unsustainable handouts just to bribe and gather votes. With everything they touch turning to disaster, the last thing Scotland needs is independence from the hoodwinking and deluded SNP. It’s time to let indyref2 happen, following the very strict rules of the SNP constitution: “A two-thirds majority must be achieved before change.” George Emslie, Bridge Of Don, Aberdeen.

Trust Nicola Sturgeon to be flying off to the United States, creating more aviation fumes, when many of her constituents are finding it difficult to make ends meet. Surely she could learn more by taking the ferry to Arran and learning how the islanders are faring after the Scottish Government’s disastrous handling of the contracts to build desperately needed ferries whose costs have rocketed – even without inflation – in a culture of disgraceful financial mismanagement amid a cost of living crisis experienced by ordinary Scots. Jim Craigen, Edinburgh.

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