Letter: Are voters Scottish-born or residents?

Are we witnessing the dawn of the Scottish Ukip’s leader ‘Nicola McFarage’, the real question is who are the People of Scotland?

Is it the people living there now ? Scottish by birth but living elsewhere in the UK? or both?

Is the first minister of Scotland trying to mimic the success against overwhelming odds of Ukip’s victory on Great Britain’s independence day vote on June 23, 2017?

Well why not? Scotland’s SNP party, the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats all campaigned to keep Great Britain shackled to the EU jackboot, only Ukip can claim to be the sole victorious party of independence, maybe even the most successful political party in recent history. Unlike the Scottish independence vote in 2014, where only people living in Scotland could vote, the 2016 British independence day vote allowed all the eligible people of Great Britain the vote.

So is it correct for Scottish referendum2 supporters to claim that, ‘the people of Scotland voted to stay in the EU’, when in fact there are thousands if not millions of Scottish-born people living in England, Wales and NI, yet nobody knows how all these people born in Scotland but living elsewhere in Great Britain actually voted in the EU referendum ?

The real irony after the Scottish referendum is that, the SNP has replaced 54 Labour MPs with 54 SNPs in the House of Commons, which puts Scotland in the best position they ever had in the British government and makes the SNP successful because they lost their referendum, where as Ukip are successful because they won their independence day referendum.

If there ever is another Scottish referendum, all the Scottish-born people living in Great Britain and eligible residents, should all be allowed to vote, after all we can all change where we choose to live, but not where we were born.

G E Fanthom, Dudley