MARK McGeoghegan asks what Labour can offer pro-independence Scots, and concludes that it will be tricky to please them (“Can Labour become home to pro-independence Scots? It will be tricky…”, The Herald, April 13). However, there is another possibility, especially as we now experience the twilight of the long Salmond-Sturgeon era.
This is the prospect that those who were carried away in the delusional hysteria of 2014 have now grown up, either chronologically or politically. Since Scotland decided that it wished to stay in the UK, they will have learned from the Supreme Court decision secured by Nicola Sturgeon that independence is politically impossible and from the lack of a coherent economic strategy that it is unaffordable. (You can’t always get what you want.)
With these facts now apparent as the failings of nationalism to all who are willing to see them, the rational response must be to look elsewhere and to find ways in which to create a better Scotland within the UK. (But if you try sometimes, you get what you need.)
Peter A Russell, Glasgow.
Planet Pedro! 