Letters / SNP vote is self indulgent
Jonathan Wills says in The Shetland Times (27 April) that we should ‘send a large SNP contingent to Westminster next week … to help draft a new British constitution that resolves the current difficulties’.
How on earth is that going to work? The largest parties at Westminster won’t countenance such a project. I fear that a decision to vote SNP at this election is the same as voting for the Lib-Dems or Greens: self-indulgence.
There is only one way of jettisoning the Tories: vote Labour. If you haven’t noticed what the Tories have been doing during the past five years, order a copy of Cameron’s Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink, by Polly Toynbee and David Walker. Voting for the SNP may very well allow them to do it for another five, as Cameron and the Scottish Sun have realised.
Brian Smith
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