YP Letters: Divorce will only damage Scotland's exports

From: Graham Branston, Emmott Drive, Rawdon.
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister.Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister.
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister.

SCOTTISH Government figures for 2013 show that Scotland sold £50.5bn in goods and services to the rest of the UK. More recent statistics for 2015 show that 63 per cent of Scottish exports were to the rest of the UK, only 16 per cent to EU countries. Still, on the back of the EU referendum, Nicola Sturgeon wants to divorce Scotland from the rest of the Great Britain.

If there is another referendum in Scotland, I hope all Scots are made aware of their greatest export market. She may be patriotic in one sense, but most certainly not in a Great British context.

From: Don Burslam, Elm Road, Dewsbury Moor, Dewsbury.

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WE could end up with a result which satisfies no one and leaves us with the worst of all worlds.

It is quite possible that an eventual outcome could include continued immigration from the continent, continuing payments to the EU, exclusion from a huge market on our doorstep and disappointing deals with the rest of the world. The Europhiles would remain unhappy with the split from their neighbours.

It is not difficult to envisage a situation therefore which would be greeted with universal disapproval.

The country would be left in a political cul-de-sac.