Sir, Margaret Allison states that independence supporters want ‘to determine our future according to what is best for all people living here and to be valued as a nation for what we are and can be.’ What on earth does that mean?

In the last fortnight, I have attended two referendum debates, one in Kelso and one in Peebles. At both events, the SNP supporters talked long and hard about how a Yes vote would ensure an equal and just society. Post 2014 we would live in this amazing land of honey and money where everyone of working age would be in fulltime employment, we would all be leaping with health and, as stated at the Peebles debate, apparently no-one would ever be lonely again. I don’t quite understand how cutting ourselves off from our friends and relatives in the rest of the UK will make us less lonely but according to those in the Yes camp that will be the case. Anyway, apparently the rich will subsidise the poor, there will be no tax rises to pay for these fantastic benefits and everyone will live happily ever after.

If anyone so much as dares to mention that the economy might be a tad shaky or the oil might run out or that in fact there might be any downside at all to separating from a fantastic union with four rich and diverse countries then they are accused of bullying and scaremongering. I’m a proud Scot, a proud Brit and I do not see why people like me should be vilified for expressing concern at the impact upon vulnerable and hard-working families of splitting from our historic friends.

I am, etc.

Fiona Campbell Stobo