Tories should force election

Sir, - I read that Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson is lobbying the UK Government on immigration.

Other than wondering why it is, with 140,000 unemployed people in Scotland chasing 70,000 job vacancies we need immigrants, I doubt that immigration should be the priority of the leader of the opposition party in the Scottish Parliament.

The Conservatives are not only the opposition, they are also the only party in Scotland not tarred with the brush of being in government and failing to deliver, in 18 years, real benefits from devolution.

Instead we have seen a decline in education, health, housing, commerce and industry, and social care, so I would hope that Ms Davidson would focus on developing a set of hard-nosed, sensible deliverable poliLiverpool’s

Multiculturalism accelerates immigration. This problem must be addressed by ensuring immigration into any community is not exceeded by the rate of assimilation

cies in these areas.

Armed with this, and her team’s excellent performances in wearing down the lacklustre SNP front bench, she would be ready to force the election that Scotland badly needs, well before 2021.

All she needs is for the Greens to follow the lead of Ross Greer in admitting the incompetence and divisiveness of the SNP and be willing to bring down this disastrous SNP government. been christened out of the ship’s bell. I have acted, and continue to act, in many and varied capacities on Unicorn’s behalf, but not as chairman.

May I add how pleased I was to see your recent Spotlight page refer to Unicorn by her proper title, HMS Unicorn.

She was launched as HMS Unicorn but became The Frigate Unicorn when she left the navy in 1968, as she was the first large RN ship to be privately preserved and there was no precedent for retaining HMS.

Since then, other preserved naval ships have retained their HMS and I coined the HM Frigate Unicorn style as an intermediate measure.

The return to the proper HMS Unicorn was decided five years ago and readers may have noted that I always use it. It is good to see it now taking wider effect.