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Letters Privileged MPs will decide whether assisted dying is an option

WITH the NHS on its knees due to deliberate underfunding for decades, whilst billions are spent on bombs and armaments each and every month, does anyone else think how absolutely absurd it is that wealthy snobs in Westminster, all with private medical insurance, are allowed to debate the rights of assisted dying for the common people, the vast majority of whom can only dream of being able to afford the luxury of private medical insurance ?

Letters The Greens must not be allowed to decide who will lead the SNP

AS an SNP member I never thought I would live to see the day that an embattled SNP First Minister would be writing begging letters to the Labour, Liberal, Green and even Tory party leaders, asking for support, while ignoring the potential support of a former SNP minister and former SNP leadership candidate. I hope whoever becomes the new First Minister does not repeat this exercise. I dread to think what would be the price of Tory support to prop up an SNP government for the next two years.

Letters Was Scotland's climate target for 2030 merely virtue signalling?

MEMBERS of Global Justice Dundee met with many activists from various community groups last week, to discuss climate change policy and share our disgust that the Scottish Government has dropped its target to cut carbon emissions by 75% by 2030. To find out that, in addition, the government had ignored the earlier warning from the Climate Change Committee that such a target was unachievable is doubly worrying and makes us doubt whether the government’s target was ever sincere – or mere virtue signalling.

Letters Stance of liar Alistair Carmichael on indy bill is hardly surprising

ON Saturday The National published a front-page splash headline proclaiming that Humza Yousaf had been “warned” to avoid supporting Ash Regan’s Referendum Bill. Read on and find that this “warning” comes from the proven liar Alistair Carmichael, who in 2015 avoided being ousted from his parliamentary seat only by a slim technicality having seen on election court uphold two charges relating to his lies.