HARRY MEAD’S prophesy of doom about the future of the United Kingdom is an over-simplification (Echo, May 13). He says: “Excluding the always-thorny issue of Northern Ireland, the thought that we weren’t one nation spanning the historic geographic national borders entered very few minds. What a tragedy that the rise of Scottish nationalism is now spawning the growth of something dangerously approaching racial hatred among our ‘family of nations’. It hardly seems too far-fetched to envisage the battles of Bannockburn and Culloden being fought again.”
Labour, through its failure to convince the majority in England and its constant bartering to please the Scots and Welsh, has given Ukip the opportunity to convince a lot of English voters about how Labour has betrayed them.
I do not believe the prophets of doom who say that the break-up of the Union would be a disaster, or that if England went its own way we would be less well off.
It is time the English, and especially us in the North-East, woke up to the fact that we have been a dogsbody long enough.
John Young, Wolsingham.
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