VEDayastrangechoice ofdatesforwriter

In the PA of Friday, November 15, the unsuspecting populace and readers of your paper were subjected to the latest offering (we are fortunate in its brevity) from Tory luminary Mr George McMillan who extols the supposed virtues of the Brexit Party’s capitulation to the Tories in standing down in over 300 seats in the upcoming election and avers that it is the greatest thing since VE Day.

A strange choice of date for greatness. I personally would have thought that in the context of great days of 1945, VJ Day overshadows this and would have been definitely better in that this marked the total end of combat between the warring nations, the ultimate conclusion of WWII and peace breaking out.

Mr McMillan surely has no wish to belittle British,Commonwealth and Allied servicemen who battled on for democracy between May and September of 1945 when although the European war had finished, a state of war still existed between the Allies and the Empire of Japan, and he clearly cannot be under the impression that Japan is still fighting after all these years?

To turn to Mr McMillan’s apparent relief that voters will not have to choose between the Conservatives and the Brexit Party in some seats, I would indeed agree that the voters have been spared an agonising choice.

The choice on one hand between the party of a total charlatan, a known philanderer, a person who changes conviction to suit his own personal agenda and ambitions, a total stranger to the truth who even failed to be truthful to HM the Queen, and who previously described Scots in a published article as “a verminous race”, a person whom even his own brother and sister disavow, and on the other hand, another ne’er do well and the supposed “new” party of a person of numerous failed attempts to enter parliament, who lacked the courage to offer himself up as a candidate for office this time around, a person who sets up new parties then abandons them to create yet another new party, all but identical to the old and still essentially the same single issue one trick pony creation.

It would have been Hobson’s Choice indeed, but it is fortunate that voters have other far more worthy candidates from other quite decent political parties to choose from. Allister Band Hermitage Drive Perth