IT was reassuring and encouraging to read “SNP can learn from Corbyn in getting their priorities right” by George Kerevan (March 25).
My feelings over the FM’s presence in London on Saturday are similar. Whilst I appreciate the profile advantages of being on the world’s stage, Nicola Sturgeon is First Minister of Scotland, and leader of the SNP, and as such one would expect her primary allegiance to be to the Scottish people, desperately wanting independence. They are already being ignored by Westminster.
There is no denying that the SNP’s success here at home rides very much on the back of the promise of independence.
It is therefore rather insulting to be ignored and dismissed as just a “grassroots movement”, or independence “bubble”. These were some of the comments received for questioning the FM’s conspicuous absence from the demonstration for independence in Glasgow on Sunday.
It was also pointed out to me that “preaching to the converted doesn’t move Scotland any closer to indy”. While I could agree with this, even the “converted” need some sign of acknowledgment, encouragement and visibility from the person and the party we rely on to take us there.
I will continue to support and vote SNP in the belief that they will help deliver Scottish independence sooner rather than later, and I will also continue to voice any misgivings I have in pursuit of this cause.
Grace Dunn
Glasgow
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