IN his letter on January 4, Ken McCartney complains about Alex Salmond having “no coherent strategy” for independence, saying that he has had ten years to think of one.
May I gently point out to Ken that Alex resigned as leader of the SNP ten years ago, having taken Scotland nearer to independence than at any time in the last 300 years.
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Since his resignation, no “coherent strategy for independence” has ever been formulated by the SNP, who have spent most of the last ten years in internal squabbling and, as a result, lost many thousands of members along the way.
The only group with the power to formulate such a strategy is the SNP, but at the moment their leadership seems to lack any such ambition.
James Duncan
Edinburgh
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