Backing union
He asks how can you keep together two countries with such widely different political views? Perhaps that question could best be answered by the Unites States, whose eminently successful union incorporates states and people whose political views are greatly more diverse than those of regions and countries of the UK. Or the German lander, again widely different views being held in areas and people of another most successful country.
In fact every thriving nation in the free world contains people holding sometimes extremely different political views.
Alexander McKay
New Cut Rigg
Edinburgh