Sir, Some of the images and stories printed over the last few days in The Courier and other publications of Yes campaign activists show a very worrying and nasty trend.
Mike Barile, a former teacher, hurling abuse and gestures at Gordon Brown is this the way for aformer teacher to promote good behaviour?
Activists getting very ugly and throwing eggs at Jim Murphy.
A photograph on the front of the Times showing the angrily distorted face of an activist, holding his right hand out with the middle finger raised. And there is much more.
In the event of a Yes victory, is this the kind of Scotland we will have to get used to?
In the event of a No victory, it could be almost worse since their anger will keep boiling over.
It is about time Alex Salmond clamped down on this very firmly.
As I said in a previous letter, in the event of a Yes victory, will the last person to leave please turn out the lights.
Andrew F Gilmour. Londive, Montrave Home Farm, Leven.
Sinister side of Yes campaign
Sir, I vote SNP as I believe it to be the party best able to govern Scotland. However, incidents in which a decent man, Jim Murphy, became a target for egg-throwing show a sinister side.
Will a “yes” vote in the referendum be a vote for mob rule and the death of democracy? The egg-throwing yahoos are clearly not interested in argument and counter-argument but are content to make their point by mindless actions.
If ever anything was calculated to damage the “yes” vote amongst thinking and concerned electors, surely this kind of action will. I wonder how many potential “yes” voters will have been put off by these foolish tactics?
James Thomson. Vardon Drive, Glenrothes.
Latent anger a real problem
Sir, Seeing your front page picture of a perfectly decent, respectable man standing up for the Union, being heckled by the baying mob, I have to ask are these loud hecklers the very people who intend to make an independent Scotland great?
When I attempt to watch televised debates it is not the opposing views that confuse me it is the audience I have lived in this beautiful country and loved its people, for almost 50 years but now feel a sense of shame at the aggression and refusal to listen to another point of view.
How could one man, namely Alex Salmond, bring us to this state? What will happen to this latent anger that is now being ventedeverywhere if there is a “no” vote? I wanna go home!
Barbara Sturrock. 12 Invergowrie Drive, Dundee.
Why I’m still undecided
Sir, Being as yet undecided, I have thought of how it will affect me and my family in the event of a “yes” vote and the following seems to have slipped under the radar with the media.
Lots of people have bought premium bonds for their children and grandchildren and still do for birthdays and such like but on checking the rules I found that they have to be purchased either over the counter at a UK post office or online using a UK bank
This country will no longer have these if separated. Also the National Lottery states that you must be a UK citizen to purchase a ticket. Just two of the many things that have me still undecided as to how I will vote
John Ritchie. 131 Bridge Street, Montrose.
If you truly love your country…
Sir, How many of those Yes supporters who tried to silence Jim Murphy on his Better Together tour the other day, and who have such a chip on their shoulder where the English are concerned, realise one thing Scotland willingly signed the Act Of Union in 1707.
It was not forced to do so through military defeat. They did so at a point when the country was on the point of economic collapse following the disastrous Darien Scheme and they did so to gain free access to English markets.
Separation will make it more difficult to access those markets which are of huge importance to the Scottish economy. Then, as now, if you truly love your country you do what’s best for it.
A home market of 63 million must surely be better for our livelihoods than one of six million?
John R Nicoll. 7C Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee.
We could lose everything
Sir, If there is a “no” vote there is a possible danger we will not get any more powers for the parliament and if Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage gain power over the next few years we could also leave the EU and even have our Scottish parliament abolished as well. Scotland would then become just a large northern version of Cornwall within the UK of Great England and Northern England.
Graham Young. 37 Polepark Road, Dundee.