End the sabre-rattling

WOULDN’T it be lovely if, just for once, the Scottish Government stopped behaving like a permanent opposition to the UK Government and co-operated with it to make the best of Brexit?

It would be in all our interests. Accusations of a ‘power grab’ do nothing to achieve a good deal, and the sabre-rattling of legislation in the Scottish parliament sets up confrontation to no sensible purpose.

Of course, the SNP doesn’t want the UK to achieve a successful Brexit deal, imagining that a poor deal would further its only interest – separation from the UK.

JILL STEPHENSON, Edinburgh.