Sir, I am a patriotic Anglo-Scot and have no vote, I’m not a member of any political party.

I have worked in the “Westminster Village” for a number of years as well as travelled extensively throughout the world and know from talking to corporate heads they are prepared to do good business with a new Scotland.

I have closely monitored the debate of the referendum issue and concluded that the Scottish people are being foisted with the greatest Westminster sting ever.

The major Westminster political parties throughout the years have never kept their promises to Scotland. In 1979 they promised more fiscal freedoms - it never materialised! The Calman Committee made important recommendations to the then Westminster Government - it was shelved no further interest. Think Beeching under orders from the then Tory Government, devastated the railway systems in Scotland, imposed the Poll Tax, got rid of school milk and reduced spending on social housing and that is not all what they inflicted on Scotland.

Brown and Darling were responsible for selling off the bulk of our gold reserves and bringing our country down to a near broke state, the consequences being lost jobs, lost homes, and deep recession. The Conservatives aided and abetted by the Liberals refused to address the serious Scottish issues, their answer to such charges was to reduce vital funding to the Scottish Government, imposing a heavy burden on the impaired and installing a bedroom tax.

Now consider the General Election voting, the bulk of the voting population are English so it is clearly understood these English voters, because of their large population will focus on their own English concerns. Countries like Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will have little chance in this Westminster environment of making a meaningful impact on their countries affairs. This will also happen at the General Election next year. What chance of any promises the three desperadoes offer being kept?

One can see that the so called political leaders in Westminster see their power bases being eroded and are desperate to save their questionable political souls.

So as panic prevails they come up with a package fronted by a toxic past political leader. But readers pause, because if such a questionable package was to convince the undecided, it would have to be processed through a fractured Westminster Cabal to reach some watered down acceptance then be passed to the Queen, (though non-political, has unionist leanings) for Royal Assent.

Probably it would be delayed until after the General Election. Then who knows the outcome of this and whether such promises will ever be honoured, especially if Mr Farage was holding the balance of power.

There is no guarantee coming from Brown’s verbal nightmares! It is a sting mastered by desperate power hungry people. And if some Scots are convinced to say NO then you will have to live with Westminster for another 100 years.

I’m afraid there is no antidote for this venomous sting.

I am, etc.

Johnny Mack Essex