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We need to restore the principles of a compassionate and caring society

Well done to Anne Johnstone ("Why do we blame poverty on the poor?", The Herald, January 31).

She articulates a growing ethos in Scotland that it seems to me was not there before.

I grew up in a Scotland that believed in the social contract. My support for an independent Scotland came about after years of receiving Westminster governments I hadn't voted for and did not reflect what I believed were Scotland's civic values.

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