YESTERDAY’S political broadcasts on both TV (Gordon Brewer’s Politics Scotland) and Radio Scotland (interview with Andrew Wilson on the Growth Report) were so encouraging after the gross Westminster proceedings that we have had to suffer of late.
It’s possible to think that if the UK were governed by people of intelligence and rationality such as those speaking on air today, we might not need to be talking about indyref2. As it is, Scotland must have independence in order for its own people to make informed choices, based on clarity and honesty.
The calibre of the majority of our MSPs, Scottish MPs and MEPs is one that we can be proud of, and this perhaps needs to be said now and again. Compare them to those in Westminster who have brought disrepute in the eyes of the rest of the world!
Janet Cunningham
Stirling
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