Sacrificing the union

Sir,

The current Tory administration, in its haste to get out of the EU at any cost, proposes, in its Internal Market Bill, to ride roughshod over Scotland’s and Wales’s devolved responsibilities.

Wales’s Counsel General Jeremy Miles says of the Internal Market Bill: ‘The UK Government plans to sacrifice the future of the union by stealing powers from the devolved administrations.’

From Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party: ‘More and more this is not about independence versus the status quo of devolution. It’s about independence as the only way to protect the Scottish Parliament from being undermined and its powers eroded.’

She continues: ‘Added to all of the above, this is a bill that, by the government’s own admission, breaks international law.’

Surely it is time for Scotland, and for Argyll and Bute, to consider its position. The UK is a busted flush, carelessly and incompetently led by Prime Minister Johnson and his compliant cabinet, all of whom bear collective responsibility for the international disgrace and dishonour done to all of us by a government for which we did not vote.

Mary MacCallum Sullivan, Ardrishaig