CAN you imagine how upset I get when, as a working-class citizen of Dundee, initially a long-term Labour city now long-term SNP, to find so many Unionist MSPs being elected on the list from our region?
The new Alba Party is a great thing for the independence movement, because the D’Hondt system was put in place by Wastemonster to try to ensure the SNP could never achieve a majority.
I had been undecided on who would get my second vote. Definitely NOT the SNP because it is absolutely wasted in our region. So with the advent of this new Alba Party with such high-profile leader, in my opinion it’s a no-brainer. SNP 1 ALBA 2.
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I am also disappointed at the reaction from quite a few of the leading SNP members to Alba. I fully understand that there will be some friction between Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond, but hey, were all adults here and they will just have to get on with it. Our aim is independence, not to provide a happy, cosy life in Holyrood. We need to get away from Boris and his type.
I just wish Joanna Cherry would come on board – hopefully she is thinking about it. Because of the disgusting online abuse, she is thinking of going back to the bar after her term in Wastemonster, which must be a horrendous place for an SNP MP to be!
Joanna, please just come home, we need you in Scotland. For the undecided amongst us, if Scotland was such a financial burden, why do they fight so hard to keeps us? Scotland on its own will prosper. I fully understand that the early years will be difficult – it’s never going to be a bed of roses initially – but for my children and grandson, life in an independent Scotland will be better in the long term.
Colin McGinnis
Dundee
COULD Jérémie Fernades (Letters, March 30) please give some examples of the “anti-LGBT terminology” used by the Alba Party?
I’ll wait.
Rory Bulloch
Glasgow
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