Martin Kettle’s view on a Scottish independence referendum is distorted by his understandable suspicion of nationalism (Sturgeon is unlikely to get her 2023 referendum, but be warned: the threat is not going away, 1 July). As an English migrant recently settled in Scotland, I can offer an alternative view. I moved here for many reasons, but one of them was that I was sick of living in England. For most of my adult life, I have had to suffer various brands of Conservative government as a result of a distorted electoral system and an increasingly ignorant English electorate.
I now have a chance to break away from this blight, and I am not going to miss it. As a social democrat, I wish Scottish Labour or Scottish Lib Dems supported an independence referendum. If they did, I would have voted for them. Since they do not, I have no option but to vote SNP or Green (PR allows me to vote for both up here).
