Editor

May I respectfully remind my countrywoman Nicola Sturgeon, (to whom the BBC has recently given much biased support), and the SNP, that constitutionally we are part of a single country, the United Kingdom.

Second only to our great friends in the United States in many areas of vital importance like IT (where mainland Europe’s achievements have been vanishingly small), cyber skills, artificial intelligence and pharmaceuticals. Militarily probably the most powerful nation in Europe.

In the perilous future we in the UK have much to offer.

We do not intend, like the SNP, to become a peripheral nonentity just off the European continent.

I’m Anglo Scot, my forbears from Shapinsay in Orkney. My grandfather was a skipper and Marine Superintendent for the P and O on the Clyde. My father worked to set up Motorola’s vital software and hardware operation at East Kilbride. My other grandfather was responsible for setting up the Scottish software headquarters in Dalkeith. He was head of ICL’s operating systems programming organisation in Staffordshire. He moved one of their teams north to form the kernel in Dalkeith.

This, like so many other things, is a gift for which Scots should be deeply grateful.

These historic links will be defended passionately, and electoral votes in such issues are not the only factor.

Philip Bews Llanbedr

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