28 AUGUST 1976, Page 12

Wee piece

Sir: Richard West predicts a gloomy future for Scotland whatever happens. According to him we have the option of continuing as an unhappy and ill-governed province of an even worse governed United Kingdom or, with independence, as a pseudo-state with just as much misery and bad government. I have a feeling when Bron Waugh comes back, Richard should take a wee holiday. I don't know where he got his story ab°ut the 'wee piece' full of readies. As the jails here fill up with fiddling Labour Coin'cillors, I am sure any Procurator Fiscal could tell Mr West what he should do, with his wee piece about the 'wee piece • la,'s regards the rest, Scotland can reasonab'Y look forward to the kind of future that her similar small countries, for example, 1 0rway, are currently enjoying. Of course() independence by itself is not going change things overnight except in the hear': and minds of Scots. But with independencrou we get the right to enjoy the revenues fro Scotland's oil, and of our other natura

for resources, and to put them to use Scotland. Thereafter it is up to us to ,rethink

0 u: own weird. The people of Scotland thinK we can do this: that is why they vote SNPWe will not let them down.

Winnie Ewing Winnie Ewing

Scottish Nationalist MP for Moray and Nairn

House of Commons, London SW1