If Scotland votes for independence, Peter Hennessy need not feel a sense of dismemberment (column, “Without the Scottish connection, England would become a ­shrivelled country”, 1 February). Scotland will still be here. It will be a Scotland without Trident and weapons of mass destruction.An independent Scotland would not be tied to economic policies that privilege finance capitalism and the City of London. It would be a more equal society than the rest of the United Kingdom, with no bedroom tax, adequate benefits, a living wage and more jobs producing goods and services that meet human need. In line with subsidiarity, more decisions affecting people in Scotland would be taken in Scotland and not at Westminster.Yet an independent Scotland would play its full part internati