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ALAN Crocket (Letters, January 21) in his response to my letter makes my case stronger, not weaker. In 2016 the SNP won 59 constituency seats, up six from 2011, but dropped from 16 to four on the list. Is it realistic to make all planning based on such a large increase in constituency seats won? I have had too many disappointments over my 29-year membership of the SNP to allow this to happen. The small drop between constituency and list in 2016 was only 2% but this was enough to slash the number of list seats, so we can’t take any chances in this key election. The 2011 overall majorit...

Letters By allowing ourselves to be victims instead of masters of the electoral system, we are shooting ourselves in the foot MUNRO Ross (“Be realistic about how many constituency seats the SNP can win in May”, January 19) is correct that there is no guarantee of 70 constituency seats for the SNP. It is a poll prediction, one pretty much in line with other recent polls, but nothing is ever guaranteed (though see below!). I don’t know where Mr Ross derives the information that the Greens are going to stand in “a large number” of seats, or what he takes to be a large number, but i...

HERE’S a thought: far from demanding “both votes” in May, my party the SNP should not stand any candidates on the lists at all, and here’s…