Sir, I have never voted for Labour in the past, but if Ed Miliband is willing and able to tackle the fat cats who run our privatised utilities and get positive results I might be tempted.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives, as usual, seem to be in a state of denial. Huge amounts of cash, provided by the taxpayer, are being channelled into the ever-deepening sink hole containing the likes of the big energy companies, BT, railways etc, etc.
The big spend seems out of control and we are all the losers . . . except those at the top of the pile.
By every means these lads seem immune to the financial problems that the rest of us mortals are saddled with . . . simply making ends meet being top of the list.
Their constant wailing about what would happen without “proper government funding” and their threats of retaliation are a disgrace.
It’s high time that central government stepped in and took control of this runaway financial mess.
The so-called free market is patently not working and a radical change in direction involving some kind of state control is long overdue.
Such decisions are never popular but they are necessary nevertheless to curtail the ever-widening gap between rich and poor.
Bob Smart. 55 Bellevue Gardens, Arbroath.
Why is she allowed to get away with it?
Sir, Thanks to The Courier for reporting on the absolutely disgraceful behaviour of the leader of the Labour Party in Scotland Johann Lamont.
How long is this person going to be allowed to go on with her scattergun approach at perceived enemies? For months now she has been smearing people right, left and centre from her bunker in Holyrood.
This time from her potentially “foreign” country to the south she calls Scottish Nationalism a virus. Didn’t Herr Schicklgruber use this term for his perceived enemies once?
Unlikely though it is, this woman could possibly become the leader of our country at the next election yet feels the need, and is able, to call approximately 25,000 of her fellow citizens last week in Edinburgh a disease.
It’s outrageous and she should have been condemned universally. I don’t see any evidence of that happening however.
It seems unionism can do and say anything these days without censure. She should be reminded, however, that there is no known cure for a virus.
BJW Macfarlane. 10 Beck Crescent, Dunfermline.
The so-called no paper era
Sir, You have to hand it to the Eurocrats. Because we are under their rule now the paper-making industry must be booming.
Requiring a very small piece of medical equipment, I bought it at the local chemist. The package it came in measured 41/2 inches by just over 2 inches. Then I took out the instructions and in 40 languages they filled a sheet of paper 24 inches (2 feet)long and just over 11 inches deep.
Before actually reading the English version of “how to . . .” I successfully put everything together and used it wondering “why this waste of paper?” especially in an age when we were told paper would be all but eliminated by the advent of computers.
Ian Wheeler. Springfield, Fife.
Hit the nail on the head
Sir, Andrew Collins’ letter, Referendum question is really quite simple (September 25), hits the nail on the head about the vilification of our democratically elected First Minister by the main stream media and the self-named “Project Fear”.
Rather than positively articulate why we are better together, their campaign to deny Scotland’s rightful constitutional status has aimed to sideline the massive grassroots, community-based YES Scotland campaign by deceiving people into thinking that the independence movement is all about the SNP and more particularly about Alex Salmond.
Do they really think that we will be duped into thinking that this is nothing more than one man’s personal project?
A man who,whatever faults some may find, is so unquestionably committed to the interests of Scotland and its people that he exceptionally retains high levels of support from the public and across the political spectrum after more than six years in office.
One can only assume that he is a threat to their power and privilege. Makes you wonder if Alex Salmond is Scotland’s enemy as they suggest, then we surely have no friends.
George Dickson. Meeru, 3 Denwell Court, Alyth.