BRIAN Quail's letter (October 15) sums up many of the reasons why people who voted Yes would still be angry and still gather in George Square - and why claiming "only a No vote saved the country" rings so hollow to so many.
Disappointingly, though he once again waves the anti-Trident flag against the No voters, trying to transform Scottish independence from a complicated mixture of issues into a single-note song where the terror of the Vanguard-class submarines are the only issue on the ballot paper and somehow one's stance on Britishness cannot be separated from nuclear weapons.
I and plenty of others voted Yes without Trident being top of our agenda; nor did the people gathering in "Independence Square" universally wish to see unilateral disarmament. Those who voted No need not be great supporters of mutually assured destruction or even ignorant of it, but instead could simply prioritise other things higher - their concerns being less with international law and more with the problems they see in their own streets.
This makes them not villains or fools and it seems unreasonable to expect everyone else to be as obsessed with Trident as Brian Quail seems to be. He has previously told us in these pages that the Scottish people widely despise Trident; yet if he was right and September 18 was de facto a referendum on nuclear weapons, surely this would mean the Scottish public in fact supported it by a small majority?
George Quail,
150 Earl Street,
Scotstoun, Glasgow.
HOW dare Brian Quail rename George Square in Glasgow? Just who has given him permission? It is George Square, end of story.
This is another example of the state of denial of many Yes supporters.
Catherine Taylor,
14 Barra Avenue, Wishaw.
Is it really too much to hope that some of those naturally disappointed with the referendum result might haud their wheesht instead of deaving us with premature claims of betrayal?
I am sure that many of us who voted No will join in condemning Westminster parties if they renege on pre-referendum promises.
Meantime give them a chance to get on with it and give the rest of us a break.
And with the resurgence of Scotland's national football team and the possibility of winning something we could have more to worry us.
It will be a long hard winter if hell freezes over.
R Russell Smith,
96 Milton Road, Kilbirnie.
IT'S been a month since the independence referendum and some people want to re-run it endlessly through your Letters Pages. But the real burning question is: when are the Red Road flats being blown up?
Freddie Dale,
4 Kirklee Circus,
Glasgow.
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