How can the SNP genuinely say they will support Labour at Westminster, whilst at the same time, going all out to capture as many Labour seats as they can (both at Westminster and Holyrood)?

How can the SNP undermine and support Labour at the same time?

Last year I believe the SNP were hoist on their own petard - they believed their own propaganda and in public, could not satisfactorily explain their own Independence policies - hence their heavy defeat.

Today the SNP are saying ‘lend us your votes’ - but all this paper talk of polls and pacts does not ring true for me.

Having been dumped by the public last year, the SNP are now engaged in a frantic self-preservation campaign, in my view.

I believe the SNP leadership are fearful of a post-Referendum backlash, which could reduce Westminster SNP members and, critically, vanquish the slender precarious SNP majority at Holyrood next year.

Consequent upon inflicting a comprehensive defeat for SNP Independence proposals, Scots are now far less likely to support or trust the Nationalist separatists.

This, in my view, is a realism which SNP strategists are grappling with at the moment. Hence their political positioning and posturing over ‘polls and pacts’.

Most polls are based on hope and speculation more than anything else.

ANDY WILSON, Kelty.