A rally in Glasgow on November 30, 2011, a day that saw 300,000 public sector workers across Scotland go out on strike IT was always macabre to read of Japanese soldiers still fighting a war decades after it was over: so how sad to read of Donald Cameron still fighting the Scottish election 90 days after the public gave his party a paltry 22%, and when before and after that election, his party has been actively recruiting personnel and campaigning in the media against Scottish secession ("Sturgeon accused of ‘plotting to divide people’ with new indy call", The Herald, August 3). For his sake, I would remind him that the UK has always been facing an “economic crisis”. Stop-go policies post-war. Boom and bust economic bubbles. Three-day weeks. Endless strikes. Winter of discontent. It was only the exploitation of Scottish oil that has allowed the UK to pretend all was well for a few decades.