Dear Sir,
I write in reference to your article dated 11th March 2014 “Why I’ll be voting yes to Scottish independence” in which you display the attitude that Scotland is less privileged to England. In the report (paragraph 2) you describe the place Easterhouse in Glasgow to be a place in which people are deprived of the basic necessities and the money to purchase these things, such as food. This is not solely a Scottish issue, I am aware in my local area there are food banks and there are people who also cannot afford the basic necessities of life for themselves and their children. The issues you say are good reasons to leave England are displayed across the whole of Britain; it is not like Scotland is alone in these situations, every cut that “Cameron, Osborne, Duncan Smith” make happens all over, and although there is a huge inequality it is not just against the Scottish, it is against the Welsh, English, (Northern) Irish and Scottish.

I believe that you might be bias, having lived in Glasgow for the last 30 years there is a chance that you might not realize that this is what happens everywhere in the UK. Towards the end of the article you claim that Scotland generated £1,700 more than England’s £9,000 tax revenues per head in 2011/12. I am lead to believe these statistics may have been altered you have not put an accurate amount of time and there due to Scotland being part of the UK its impossible to tell apart the countries figures as individuals. On the office for national statistics website, the fact is that in mid-2012 there was 53.5 million people in England and 5.3 million in Scotland. This doesn’t match up with the claims you make, unless Scottish people are a lot more well-off, which strongly contrasts with your first argument, that Scottish people is filled with poor people who are unable to get money due to the English government.

I suggest that voting no to Scottish independence would be a better solution. A reason for this is because the UK has involved the Scots since 1707 and even with the cultural and political