Sturgeon pays price for Brexit assumptions
THE big losers in the Brexit fallout are Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nicola sturgeon. All three are guilty of assuming they knew what the public wanted.
The first two have seen their stock fall as only a handful of ordinary people are as opposed to Europe as they are.
Miss sturgeon, desperate to revive the failed independence drive, latched on to Brexit thinking ordinary people love the EU as much as her.
It’s telling that the sNP was invisible during the Brexit debate and we know many sNP members either did not vote at all or voted Leave.
Now Miss sturgeon is posing as a born-again Europhile and many in the Nationalist movement, let alone the rest of us, don’t like it.
They can say all they like about how Brexit is driving voters their way but there is no concrete sign of Yes surging. J. GALLOWAy, Ayr.
Heading for a fall
NICOLA sturgeon once cannily said she’d call Indyref 2 when she thought she could win it.
Now she’s plotting to turn the next election (Mail) into a test for independence. With all the polls showing Yes support has flatlined, she’s heading for a fall. JANiCE TRAyNOR,
Glasgow.
Show of desperation
IT Is only courtesy that sees the Prime Minister discuss Brexit with the First Minister, yet – desperate for relevance – Nicola sturgeon is demanding a leaders’ debate on the issue.
Why would the UK PM and the UK leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, discuss a UK matter with the head of a small devolved assembly such as Miss sturgeon?
DON GibSON, Glasgow.
Others seeking way out
THE EU is fooling itself if it thinks Britain is the only country considering exiting its club.
Poland is looking for a way out, the problems with Greek fianances have been patched over, not fixed, while the economies of Italy and Portugal remain shaky.
In Ireland, Leo Varadker has been trying to make life difficult for us over the Irish border to please his masters in Brussels. We should not forget Ireland sold its sovereignty for a euro bailout. GEORGE DuNCAN, Dunfermline, Fife
Warped priorities
METROPOLITAN Police Federation chairman Ken Marsh wants members of the public to intervene with knife-wielding thugs rather than walk on by.
Yet the then Met Police deputy commissioner sir Craig Mackey locked himself inside his car when PC Keith Palmer was murdered outside Parliament. What sort of an example does this set?
Meanwhile, police chiefs fear a disturbing lack of respect for the law. Are these the same officers who insist on investigating wolf whistling? While we have warped police priorities and few bobbies on the beat, things will get worse. N. THOMPSON, Rossendale, Lancs.
Motor madness
As A young PC, accompanying a highly experienced police driver, we stopped a limo that had been weaving from lane to lane.
When we approached the driver, he blustered his innocence and said: ‘Why aren’t you out catching murderers, rapists or robbers?’ Calmly and clearly, my mentor said: ‘If all motorists could be trusted to obey easily understood driving rules and regulations, I
would be out catching murderers, rapists or robbers.’ NORMAN A. DEAN, Preston, Lancs.
Price of Blair legacy
DENIsE Coates built bet365 (Mail) up from nothing and a private firm can pay its bosses what it likes. But thanks to Tony Blair’s gambling policies, you cannot move on our high streets for bookies and TV is swamped with gambling advertising.
No wonder so many are developing problems with a gambling habit. DEREk TAyLOR, Gourock, Renfrewshire
Too dangerous to risk
WHILE I feel nothing but sympathy for parents whose children have life-threatening allergies (Letters), why take risks by eating out in mass-market outlets?
It is to easy for mistakes to happen with possibly lethal consequences. Of course, all parents want their children to have as normal as possible an upbringing but some things are so dangerous that it is simply not possible.
JO CALDER, Aberdeen.