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Your support makes all the difference.Nicola Sturgeon has an opportunity to do something radical for Scotland. At a stroke, and at no financial cost, our new First Minister can significantly enhance the governance of Scotland, and also improve our economic prospects and ease social division.
First, recognising the weakness in the Scottish Parliament’s committee system when one party has an absolute majority, the First Minister could sit down with the leaders of the other parties to agree a new system of committee appointments to ensure the government of the day is more properly held to account.
Second, in a magnanimous gesture, the SNP government could announce there would be no second independence referendum during the five-year term of this Parliament. This would remove a great uncertainty that is otherwise hanging over Scotland’s economy, undoubtedly putting off future investment. Equally, it would lift the threat of social discord hanging over the people of Scotland, more than half of whom have no appetite for another divisive referendum.
You have the power, First Minister, but the way you use it will define how history will judge you.
Keith Howell
West Linton, Scottish Borders
Sick of an indecisive EU generation
I find myself increasingly exasperated to be in the age group who have watched a generation vote us in to Europe and then stood on the sidelines acting like spoilt children, yelling about how unfair it all is that we aren't in charge.
And then when it's too late for them, they believe it's fair and correct to vote us back out! The sins of the fathers repeated?
I work all over the EU and many of them are keen to see us stay in to maintain some balance. We remain far stronger within, fighting our corner, than without, facing a Franco-German axis.
Please get beyond the noise and realise that there is a political imperative at work here that transcends the Little Britain thing.
My generation would like the chance to make our own mistakes.
John Sinclair
Pocklington, East Yorkshire
Politicians shouldn't be corporate
It's great that Bernie Sanders is making waves. He deserves to do so. The political tide is with him - so forget the pundits. This could still be the biggest upset in the Democratic Party's history - since they chose Barack Obama!
Hillary Clinton, who is in Wall Street’s pocket, is a big problem - a problem, in her own way, equal to Donald Trump; for she reveals the power of corporations. She shouldn’t be chosen as the Democratic Presidential candidate.
Patrick Glass
St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex
Some of my best friends
All this talk of racial hatred in politics distresses me. Some of my best friends are human beings.
Christopher Pearce
London, W5
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