Sir,
There is one common theme in your correspondents who are engaging in the political process through your pages, and that is that they are all attacking the SNP.
They may believe that they have good reason to, although they do not seem able to advance policies which they claim that the SNP are failing to deliver.
My requirements for the MP I wish to represent me are fairly simple. That they represent their constituents, that they represent their country, and then represent this (dis)united kingdom.
After fifty years of being eligible to vote I joined a political party for the first time. I had eventually stopped voting Labour because the party using that name was no longer the party of those who laboured, but had become the party of those who only benefited from the labour of others. I do not hanker after the ‘good old days,’ they were hard times, but at least there were no foodbanks and Labour was indeed the party of the workers.
I have now joined the SNP. They may not have taken up the mantle of Keir Hardy, but they do at least lean in that direction.
Others may wish to vote for one of the London based parties, that is a choice we all have. It’s called democracy. However we must remember that those parties will likely govern in the way that will suit those who bankrolled them and not those who elected them.
WA Johnston
1 Baile Na Cille
Balivanich
Letter: There is no Labour
6 May 2015