Will she never see that No means No?
SINCE 2014, we have had two major and unprecedented referendums, three General elections and a Scottish parliamentary election. Surely, now is the time for the healing of division. I expect we’ve all had enough. However, this is unlikely when the First Minister is using words like ‘imprisoned’, ‘block the will’ and ‘utter contempt’ in her interviews, all with regard to the UK. also, when she cheers with childlike glee at Jo Swinson losing her seat (and her staff being made unemployed) the optics do not look great either. Labour is now entering a period of reflection. If only the SNP had embarked on a similar period of quiet contemplation in 2014.
DAVID BONE, Girvan, Ayrshire.
THERE is little doubt that the SNP enjoyed a very successful election result with 48 MPs elected, but the main thrust of the campaign was to ‘Lock boris out’ by forming an alliance with Labour in order to get another independence referendum — which, owing to the collapse of the Labour vote, they failed miserably to achieve. Nicola Sturgeon may rant and rave about Scotland’s voice but the reality is that for the next five years the answer from the strong Conservative Government will be a resounding No.
DENNIS FORBES GRATTAN, Aberdeen
THE day after the SNP’s ‘Stop brexit’ bus was finally parked and the General election was over, all reference to brexit was dropped by the SNP. Instead it was back to ‘outrage’ and ‘demands’ for the only thing it craves, the break-up of the UK. brexit was just the latest foil that no doubt conned some voters. and apparently a ‘stonking mandate’ is now 45 per cent of the vote. It is eerily reminiscent of the day after the 2014, ‘once in a lifetime’, referendum that the SNP lost. all references to its previous statements were dropped, as if they had never been said, and it was back to the normal whining and grievance peddling. It staggers me anyone can believe a single word the SNP says.
ALEXANDER MCKAY, Edinburgh.
WITH reference to the claim by Nicola Sturgeon and her cohorts that she ‘has a mandate’ from Scotland for another referendum. I know that the SNP is failing our children in many areas, but how can she have a claim like that when 45 per cent voted for them but 55 per cent did not? Do Nationalists not understand that 10 per cent makes a huge difference to their argument? or is it expedient to keep the independence madness in full throttle?
ELAINE DUNCAN, Brodick, isle of Arran.