ROBIN MacLean believing the motivation for Anas Sarwar to refuse indyref2 is because he has aspirations to be British Prime Minister may be partially true on a personal level (Letters, April 13).
However, this doesn’t explain the democracy-denying cancer that pervades the British Labour party and which has been brought to bear on the branch office in Scotland since the 2014 referendum.
Surely the truth is that the Labour party leadership knows full well that if it loses Scotland and the MPs it aspires to regain, it effectively loses any possibility of returning to power in a Westminster now dominated by self-obsessed, isolationist, English nationalist and far right dogma?
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Isn’t the Labour party in Scotland merely reflecting the wider British political diaspora; central control with Scotland and Scots shunted aside and given scant regard?
There are many in Scotland who adhere to much of Labour’s traditional values, but denying our democratic right to decide our own future is not one of them.
Which is why, in the abrogation of Labour’s principle to serve rather than dictate, many like me will hold their nose and vote for the best scenario they hope will secure the referendum to facilitate independence.
Given the electoral system we have, for me that’s SNP for candidate and Alba for the list.
The right to the referendum is sacrosanct. No-one in the face of the demonstrated will of the Scottish people has any right to deny it, and certainly not on the political whim of a prime minister.
Jim Taylor
Edinburgh
GOT my postal vote yesterday! And in same delivery through my letterbox an “urgent message” from Douglas Ross and Ruth Davidson! Now there’s a coincidence!
Needless to say one is safe on my mantle piece. The other is ripped and decaying in my compost bin. No prizes to know which!!
Robin Maclean
Highland & Islands voter
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