Scotland Matters Letters

IF, AS reported, any kind of sensitive information with regard to the UK nuclear submarine force is being kept from the SNP by the UK authorities, it is basic common sense. Just think of any of the Green Party, now in coalition with the SNP, having access to any kind of secret material. The very thought is terrifying. The SNP/ Green administration in Scotland, or their MPs in Westminster, should not be allowed within a mile of anything that could be of even minute value to those who would harm this country given the opportunity. Alexander McKay, Edinburgh.

THE SNP Government is demonstrably no longer working for the people of Scotland but for itself. Mr Yousaf, taking yet another leaf out of Nicola Sturgeon’s handbook, sent his Social Justice Secretary to announce the court challenge. This is in order to try and extricate himself when this goes disastrously wrong. Another Herald front-page story, that of the doctor asked if he was pregnant before his blood could be donated (“Male blood donors asked if they are pregnant”, The Herald, April 13), shows the direction of travel of the SNP/ Green reforms. It is also very pointed that this action is being taken on behalf of the Scottish Government who passed these reforms, but not on behalf of the coltish people who are against them. It is another example of an immovable SNP/Green object meeting an irresistible public force, but this time something has to give. Dr Gerald Edwards, Glasgow.

IT HAS been clear that The First Minster Humza Yousaf was in all likelihood going to challenge the decision by the UK Government to block the Gen-der Recognition Reform Bill passed in the Scottish Parliament. The recent calamitous headlines round the SNP have made his decision purely as a diversionary tactic regardless of the waste of public money and time that will be the result. Only Humza Yousaf could ignore the eminent Lord Hope, former Deputy President of the Supreme Court who commented that the Scottish legislation “most certainly does impact on the Equality Act 2004. Further he notes that a court chalenge is “risking wasting a lot of time and money” and that the prospects of success were very low”. Humza Yousaf will come to regret not following this sound advice. Richard Allison, Edinburgh.

BEING slightly unhinged seems to be no reason for concern in Scotland, especially in the NHS. Now, however, they are going what I believe is called “full tonto”. We have a recent case of a GP, Dr Steffen McAndrew, whose attempt to do his civic duty as a blood donor was blocked because he refused to state that he was not pregnant. Who started this takeover of the NHS by gender madness? Which minister gave the order for it? Which committee laboured long and hard to produce such insanity? Which senior managers implemented it without protest? You can change what you think you are (your gender). You can change what you want to be called. And now you are in many places required to state your pronouns. But what you cannot change is your biological sex from birth. Is it too much to ask that the NHS, which is supposed to be based on science and not voodoo, recognises that? Jill Stephenson, Edinburgh.

WE HAVE the worst NHS wafting times ever and more than 20 per cent of Scottish families are facing poverty. But our new First Minister has given priority to fighting the UK Government over the gender Bill and is happy to spend huge sums of money on legal fees fighting a case that he can’t possibly win. It is not at all surprising that support for the SNP is dropping fast. It has completely lost touch with the Scottish people. Dennis Forbes Grattan, Bucksburn, Aberdeen.

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