Council elections may endorse Brexit vote

Sir, Shortly after the UK leave vote in the referendum Margaret Thatcher’s former chancellor, Lord Lawson said: ‘Brexit gives us the opportunity … to finish the job that Mrs Thatcher started.’

Scotland voted to remain and I’m sure Scotland’s leave voters did not do so take Scotland back to the 1980s.

With Theresa May and the Tories arrogantly suggesting they will ignore Scotland’s position, it looks like they are planning what Nigel Lawson suggests.

Mrs May has failed to rule out opening up the NHS to private US health providers as she desperately seeks a trade deal with Donald Trump.

She also suggests she might turn the UK into a tax haven by making massive tax cuts – cuts that could only come with cuts to public services.

Iain Duncan Smith’s cuts to welfare for families and the vulnerable will continue and a bedroom tax mark two is being considered.

We all now face a Tory hard Brexit.

In May, Scotland faces another election for its councils. The Tories will treat them as a vote to endorse their version of Brexit.

They will hope people who oppose their policies don’t turn out, giving them a larger share of the vote.

The only way to send them a message that people don’t want their version of Brexit is to turn out in numbers so that they cannot claim people want a return to the 1980s.

Bill Wallace, 120 Wyndford Road, Glasgow.