Sir,
Labour’s main campaigning point for the forthcoming election seems to be the myth that if we vote SNP in May we will get a Tory government.
What they deliberately, and conveniently, overlook is the truth: Scotland returned a majority of Labour MPs in 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992 and 2010 and we got the Tories. The sad fact is that, under the present system, if people in the rest of the UK vote to elect a Tory government that is what we in Scotland will get.
Coincidentally, David Cameron told the Scottish Conservative Conference in February that a vote for the SNP is a vote for a Labour government!
The truth is that a vote for the SNP is a vote for a strong voice at Westminster speaking up for Scotland, no matter who is in government.
Margaret Ann Macleod
53A Newmarket
Isle of Lewis
Letter: Labour myth
6 April 2015