WILLIE Bruce (Letters, February 28) is correct when he says that Stuart Campbell, the Wings Over Scotland blogger, used to be a genuine asset to the independence movement. However, to say that he has started “raising concerns about the internal strife in the SNP” is disingenuous, to put it mildly.
For some time now Campbell has been actively engaged on fomenting internal strife in the SNP. He is now an active bag carrier for Alex Salmond.
Mr Salmond will always be revered as a titan of the independence movement. However, and it pains me to say it, as an individual and once the most powerful man in Scotland, his personal behaviour – by his own admission and that of his defence counsel – has been deeply disappointing. In the light of that behaviour, his repeated oblique references to breaches of the ministerial code seem to me hypocritical and absurdly ironic in the scale of things.
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Stuart Campbell and Alex Salmond have much in common. They both feel deeply slighted by the SNP. They appear to be allies, but the wonder is that their destructive egos and narcissism, which transcend the greater good of independence, can be accommodated on the same planet. By all means read Stuart Campbell if you like. Personally, what Willie Bruce describes as “direct” I would class as frequently vitriolic bile. Not for nothing was Mr Campbell permanently banned from Twitter.
Douglas Turner
Edinburgh
I WAS listening to Radio Scotland on Saturday and started paying attention in the middle of somebody Scottish talking about “unifying the country” and “what unites us”.
I thought, aye, unifying us with your pal Boris Johnson, and waited for the inevitable “stop the SNP”. It did occur to me that this would be a strange time to be interviewing Douglas Ross, but it was still a surprise to me when it turned out I’d been listening to the new leader of the Labour and Unionist Party!
Derek Ball
Bearsden
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