The township of 12 people
which sells four million
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Scotland
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In Kenneth Roy’s editorial (10 January) he says: ‘We are having a referendum – sometime, somehow, somebody’s – and maybe we are going to break away and do our own thing’.
At a book event last summer, during a discussion of Scottish independence, the author Allan Massie, at my request, asked everyone in the audience who had family living south of the border to put up their hands. A clear majority did so.
Many, many people must be in a similar situation. Take me: born in Kent to parents with strong Scottish connections (mother a Gordon, father born in Newport, South Wales, but educated at Alloa Academy), and therefore in a Scottish cultural milieu – we read Oor Wullie and celebrated Hogmanay as enthusiastically as we did Christmas, with ‘first – footing’ etc.
I have lived in Scotland now for 17 years but my extended family is almost equally divided north and south of the border. I do not consider myself Scottish, but nor do I consider myself English. I am British.
Who do you think is qualified to vote in a referendum to part me from my family?
Elizabeth Roberts
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