LETTER FROM M F CORALL, AGED 98

Scotland is very rich.

In the Financial Times, a Mrs M Corall writes:

I am a 98 year-old great grandmother and I am depressed that there are people in Scotland who lack all ambition for themselves and their country to the extent that they are prepared to vote NO in the Scottish independence referendum and so maintain Scotland's subservient position within the Union.

I have lived through 26 British governments and none of them has shown they understand or care about Scotland...

Polls show close race month before Scotland vote.

Male life expectancy in parts of Glasgow is a mere 54 years.

This places Scotland alongside developing African countries...

The reasons for this appalling state of affairs are poverty and lack of political representation...

For the past 40 years Scotland has been at the heart of the European oil and gas industry yet still poverty and ill-health plague the nation. 

With at least another generation of oil and gas to be extracted we cannot afford to let this continue.


Scotland is very rich

A vote for independence will drive the double-dealers out and give Scots the chance to make decisions in their own interest and, yes, be responsible for good and bad results.

I acknowledge there are uncertainties but this is always a necessary part of large political acts.

Indeed recent experience of global economic disaster has amply demonstrated that if uncertainty is the major worry there is no alternative but to keep your head beneath the blankets and pretend the real world does not exist...

At almost 100 I am at last being given the opportunity to be politically mature.

M F Corall

Aberdeen, UK.

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