‘Please, stay with us’: the best of Spectator readers’ letters to Scottish voters

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[/audioplayer]At 9.30 p.m. last Saturday news broke that Scotland’s ‘yes’ campaign had established its first opinion poll lead. Since then, the country has been confronting the possibility of its impending dissolution. The vote will affect all 64 million people in the United Kingdom, and most have neither a vote, not a voice. Last weekend, The Spectator asked readers to submit letters to Scottish voters, saying why they are hoping for a ‘no’ vote. Those printed here are a small selection from the hundreds we received.

Strikingly, almost no one talks (as the ‘no’ campaign does) about the economic drawbacks of separation. No one who wrote to us claimed that Scotland could not go it alone, and no one seemed interested in the allure of ‘devo max’. They were concerned about Britain, its values, and what might be destroyed if the country were snapped in two.