Key quotes from businessman letter to Herald:
“I have never encountered anti-Scottish resentment south of the Border (indeed the number of Scots in top positions in my industry rather suggests the opposite).
What I have rather encountered is a quite genuine sense of bewilderment at an endless enunciation of grievance and inferiority. This isn’t Anglophobia, it is something more. [The SNP wants] to control our own future and decide what sort of country we choose to live in.
Quite right. That’s why we have a Scottish Parliament in charge of the vast bulk of the internal affairs of Scotland, capable of producing a radically different agenda if it should so choose.
That after 13 years in power [the SNP] is incapable of substantial deviation from UK perspective suggests not thraldom of Westminster but intellectual poverty/bankruptcy of movement with no ideas, only slogans. [if you feel] aggrieved, it is with Holyrood the beef should lie.
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