I read with interest John Gosling’s letter in the issue of November 29.
It is unfortunate that he and his ilk, including the BBC, continue to peddle the fake news that 62 per cent of the Scottish population voted Remain in the Brexit referendum. The actual position was that out of 5.4 million residents 3.9 million were registered to vote of whom 1.7 million (43 per cent) voted to remain, 1.0 million (26 per cent) voted to leave and 1.2 million (31 per cent) were so unimpressed either way that they failed to vote at all. Hardly a convincing argument for anything.
He then goes into a fiight of fancy by suggesting that by achieving independence from one union and staying in another, even if the EU let us, given the budget deficit of £13 billion last year and the SNP’s ever-increasing need to borrow money, Scotland would become great again, notwithstanding the present government’s appalling record on running education and the health service.