WITH reference to the Feedback page in today's Sunday National, thank you Donald Anderson, Steve Arnott and Ashley MacGregor for taking the time to write such rational and well-thought-out responses to the issue of the list voting options in the next election for the Scottish Parliament.
Ever since the news broke of Stuart Campbell’s plans for a Wings Party to stand in the list, I have been swayed one way and the other by the numerous letters and articles in response to this proposal.
However, today’s letters, possibly coming from differing stances in general political terms but all of them singing from the same hymn sheet on this issue, have convinced me that this strategy will indeed be the deciding factor in achieving that decisive majority of independence-supporting parties at Holyrood.
Jennifer Rodger
West Kilbride
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