SNP’s shameful stunt

The SNP walks out of parliament and Ian Blackford talks about a ‘constitutional crisis’.

The only ‘constitutional crisis’ is of the SNP’s own making, having whipped up outrage about a non-existent power grab.

What a pity that Scottish Labour and Liberal Democrat MSPs gave this confection their support – and therefore provided aid and comfort to the SNP.

Scotland will receive all the powers returning from Brussels in devolved areas, a small minority later than the rest. This is what should exercise MSPs, given how inept the Scottish Government has shown itself to be at exercising the powers that it already has.

JILL STEPHENSON, Edinburgh.

The staged walkout from Westminster by the SNP shows yet again that the nationalists do not speak for the people of Scotland but for their own agenda of finding grievance where none exists to further the only reason for their existence – independence.

If they have so much disrespect for the 2014 result and the eu referendum result they cannot call themselves democrats.

JAMES MCMURRAN, via email.

FOLLOWING on from the latest SNP stunt at PMQs, I am hugely embarrassed that the rest of the UK only gets the SNP view and not that of the majority of the Scottish people.

nicola Sturgeon et al regularly preach that Westminster ignores democracy. can they cast their minds back to 2014?

The SNP could fight with their own shadows. An embarrassment of a government.

GARY MCROBB, Aberdeen.

The walkout by the nationalist MPs at Westminster was so predictable.

Their faux outrage over Brexit is an embarrassment, but is yet another example of their grievance strategy against the Tory UK Government, hoping to help their independence cause.

I would be happy to see the SNP stay out of the house of commons.

E. NICHOLLS, Dunfermline, Fife.

The Westminster power grab is in full effect and so we must rush to Indyref 2 so that Scotland’s voice is heard…

But there is no power grab. After Brexit many powers go to holyrood and a few go temporarily to Westminster so they can be set up on a Uk-wide basis.

‘Scotland’s voice’ is most certainly not nicola Sturgeon, Ian Blackford and the Snp droning on.

And Indyref 2? If the SNP is demanding that the protocols of holyrood be respected, let’s have some respect for the binding 2014 independence referendum.

L. FORD, Edinburgh.