The Editor
Scotland on Sunday
108 Holyrood Road
Edinburgh EH8 8AS

Monday the 6th of November 2006

Dear Editor

The eight lines of summary to your one hundred and thirty lines editorial “Iraq: the problem that won’t go away” in your 5th of November Sunday newspaper had it instead made reference to the decision of England going to war on that country given by both a hoodwinked Westminster Parliament where many could have accrued serious loses by opposing their leader, who in claiming external powers for his voicing that he was W.M.D. right to do so, yet so belatedly to cover up for his own personal power happy posterity aggrandisement of madness was truly unfortunate.

That is to say your editorial, outwith your mention of a Private soldier in taking “the Queen’s shilling and so should take his orders” whatever you’ve meant by that, that quote is definitely out of order and, shameful it is of your utterance. Had you done your homework thoroughly of all the prior events such a calamitous misjudged error could have been avoided?

Secondly, England no longer has an Empire and was not in danger of being invaded; therefore it overstepped its mark, and as is proven also by your heading, England should not have taken such an imprudent decision to invade Iraq – your comment about the soldier is even more disgraceful.

Your infantile sketch of a man in Bute House same page is commensurate with keeping a sterile Scottish nation from becoming a proud one.

Yours sincerely

Les Snowdon
Editor
Scotland on Sunday
108 Holyrood Road
Edinburgh EH8 8AS

Tuesday the 21st of November 2006-11-21

Dear Sir,

The Blair communication skills are remarkable only to dimwits of whom the Magnus Linklater well written article in the main on a Blair legacy does not read that he is included.

Mindful of the Linklater mention of Blair’s bid to end child poverty reform in omitting to state that the Act ended in a complete cock-up, and that the legitimacy of placing this country covering several years of devastation and suffering that “Blair’s” Iraq war has cost comes within the “in the main” of his article.

Whether the Blair referred to unshakeable moral convictions are from Linklater or Lloyd “will outweigh the charges of his lies” come from, one or both of them, have overlooked the unexpected manner in which such morality came forth from the man’s own lips spoken during his voluntary last year term of his UK premiership.

Any record of reform being created within the last year of the Blair premiership to match Thatcher’s - is sub-leader writer’s codswallop.

The Editor
Letters
Scotland on Sunday

Saturday the 24th of February 2007

Dear Editor

So P.M. Blair thinks that in giving the pensioner an increase to £87 per week that he has brought 200,000 Scottish pensioners out of abject poverty.

I’d like to know what country or planet he is living in or on.

I suggest he scraps pensioner credits and, gives all a minimum wage, linked to the greater of living standards or earnings, plus the encouragement of personal savings would be a more realistic way or action to take - to prevent pensioner poverty.

P.S. To the Editor of Online Scotland on n Sunday,

I read with interest the Kenny Mathieson promotional review of the concert given by the Swedish Jazz Kings in the Inverness Town Hall.

Although lengthy, you may consider my review of the concert of interest to publish.

Swedish Jazz Kings at Inverness Town Hall

The Editor, Scotland on Sunday, Edinburgh, Scotland

Sunday the 8th of April 2007

Having got the last copy of Scotland on Sunday today at 10.30am in my local, I was happy with enlightenment by your editorial “An election watershed”, which on the face of it, reads unbiased but is sensed within its roots that a feeling of the completed downfall of Scotland’s tumbling into the pits would be desirable by having another term of office given over to the warmongering New Labour - appears to be your favour.

Kenny Farquharson “Buggins Turn” a utopian term used to give each one in a group a turn in office, thus, as utopia is not a political party in Scotland, his “…real vision” is but muddled talk.

On the other hand, let’s hope that the Scottish race at core are no longer sheepish wimps susceptible to taking in your Newspaper’s headline - SNP ‘not fit to govern’ - at face value, telling you where to get lost, and decide for themselves, not by Buggins, but by the fact that it’s time, a long, long time overdue, for a fresh government and act accordingly.

With regards to “do the SNP’s figures add up” column, Professor Midwinter states that the local income tax and poll tax are valid comparisons, which beg the question – how can he tell as neither has been operational? He states “ this package is riddled with funding errors and omissions indicative of a party lacking the fiscal competence”, adding that “a new local income tax of 3p does not stand up to serious scrutiny” backing the New Labour claim of a 5p setting. Well, well now!

In backing the local 3p tax, Professor Simpson states that the Scottish Executive would receive about £400m paid to householders in Council tax rebates from the Treasury if the present Council tax was scrapped.

If a local tax is operated without New Labour give-away free-for-alls, involving proportionately all on the National Poll register making payment, and, by adding Simpson’s £400m to it, what sum would Midwinter come up with taking into consideration a savings cost of making national identity cards unnecessary – please ask him that question?

SNP appear to have it right – New Labour have it wrong.

It’s Time

The Editor, Scotland on Sunday

Monday the 30th of April 2007

Your editorial “Time for a new vision” is the longest and most sensibly versed that I’ve read during the past twelve months of my spell living back in Scotland.

As for the perspective of Kenny Farquharson, if Salmond becomes First Minister, I’d say that he’d need Labour like a duck’s egg gobbling up a hen’s one, other than the way he has described such need of an event happening, as there must be intellectual Civil Administration fuelling his “strong” leadership assisting him.

Tell him that in looking at Inverness and Nairn, Scotland certainly is badly in need of someone not having run a parish council.

The squealing Glen Campbell lead a good debate on BBC TV last night, but he did not find out why after years of New Labour ruling in office, Scotland does not have “the best education in the world” on which it once was famous.

Yours sincerely
Ian King
Kings Jazz Review
Inverness, Scotland. You have my address

The Editor, Scotland on Sunday, Edinburgh

Sunday the 6th of May 2007

Dear Editor

I can’t believe it – me a Tory, being overwhelmingly in tune with your single topic editorial “Time for leadership” and, the subtlety of both the caption and content behind them, sadly, it the past, lasting half a century for far too long in the process of keeping Scotland a second class nation.

Your “choice” for Annabel Goldie is prudent as seen on the few TV clips that I’ve seen of her excellent performances on them.

Well then, I can also go along with Farquharson, since by his youthful photo looks, I guess that he would have known nothing of how the control of his reference “in-fighting” was successfully managed by a now split-up Adriatic country leader in the past.

It’s yes, for a new Scotland beginning.

“Your Coalition Mud” artist has obviously never seen the expertise of a circus horse rider. You spell out that “100,000 votes ruled out of order” perhaps those voters cannot be expected to judge the significance of the artists’ horse being in kilter with the people of Scotland – if so – then it would be insulting akin to our country having a first class General in command of a useless imbecilic army.

The point you make as “moral authority” on the two-thirds of voters sought continuance of the 300 years old Union, but you omit to mention the number of dyed-in-the-wool party voters voting whatever is their Party policy, thus, including the rest and your 100k relative small number of voters taken into consideration, the SNP effectively does have the moral right for an independent Scotland.

“You can fool some of the people some of the time..” but, just like the media that fooled some of us that the new voting system is complicated – it certainly was not, and, I expect you came to that conclusion yourself.

Yours sincerely, Ian King, Kings Jazz Review, Inverness, Scotland. You have my address.

The Editor (letters), Scotland on Sunday, Edinburgh
Sir
Eddie Barnes appears to move that a “Labour Spokesman” refers that Alex Salmond wants the people (not persons) of Scotland to want a global Scotland government that’s pleased with itself unlike a ‘boom and bust’ Gordon Brown spent New Labour one.

Ian King, Inverness, Scotland,
Kings Jazz Review
Monday the 21st of April 2008

Eddie Barnes
Scotland on Sunday
Edinburgh, Scotland

Sir,
The “Salmond feel-good factor” will last in length of time not only when the Scottish poll-tax wimps brigade, indoctrinated by a long-time spiritless Scotland on Sunday newspaper crew running alongside them, all come to see the depth of despair that they have brought upon themselves and Scotland - voice it loud and clear for all to hear - when the likes of you, the ineffectual Eddie Barnes, stop spouting that Alex Salmond should “deliver real change” without printing what he should do - that the SNP and Scottish Government should in the near future make Scotland an independent country.- if that’s now - your real messenger voice.

Ian King
Kings Jazz Review
Sunday the 4th of May 2008