OH dear.
We are on the cusp of the most momentous decision the people of Scotland will be asked to take. Will we stand up and join the international community as a forward-thinking, financially responsible and socially inclusive country or remain yoked to an unelected Coalition which seems determined to break free from Europe and pull up the drawbridge behind it? There are many questions to be asked and debated, but the No campaign must be delighted to read all the coverage being given over to a chap waving a flag at a sporting event where two blokes hit a ball over a net.
Unlike the Rt Rev John Taylor, I am not ashamed of the Saltire (Letters, July 10). I am, however, rather concerned that there are those, like Mr Andrew Kerr (Letters, July 11) who seem to think that Scots like Andy Murray who live in England – and presumably all the Scottish diaspora – should be able to vote whilst denying the vote to immigrants "with little interest in our constitution". Surely if someone lives in Scotland and is on the Electoral Register they are eligible to vote? Let's discuss the big questions and put Mr Salmond's Saltire flag back into Moira's handbag. For the moment.
Dr Graeme Finnie,
Balgillo, Albert Street, Blairgowrie.
AS a proud Scot I was sitting watching the Scottish Open golf being played on a beautiful Scottish course set amidst wonderful Scottish scenery bathed in glorious Scottish weather when my enjoyment was abruptly ended. It seems these devilish and devious Nationalists loathed by your contributors the Rt Rev John Taylor and Peter Jensen (Letters, Jul 11) have struck again. Indeed they have had the cheek to pepper the links with not one but 18 Saltires. How dare they? It is time they knew their place.
Ian Gray,
5 Barmore Avenue, Carluke.
CAN I back up Robbie Dinwoodie's story yesterday on Danish reaction to Scotland's referendum and prospective membership of the EU or Nato ("Danish interviews contradict Better Together's EU claims", The Herald, July 10)? I am on holiday in Denmark and independence is the topic all Danes want to discuss when they learn you are from Scotland.I have met no-one yet who is opposed to Scotland's independence. One said to me yesterday: "Surely it is natural to want to run your own affairs, we certainly wouldn't want to be run by Sweden."
I have also discussed it with some former colleagues from the European Parliament who are certain Scotland would be warmly welcomed as members of all European institutions; as one put it: "After all, you have been members of the EU for 40 years, you are hardly going to be excluded now."
Hugh Kerr (MEP 1994-99),
Holstenklub 22, Copenhagen.
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