Not democracy, it’s coercion

Sir, – Rather a lot has been made of the allegation that one third of yes voters opted to leave the EU.

I have my doubts but if we accept that at face value, it follows that more than 60% of no voters must have voted to remain, in order to result in the overwhelming 62/38 split.

Even “the parcel of rogues” who signed up for the Treaty of Union, did so on the basis of an equal partnership, but here we have the clearly expressed wishes of Scotland, expressly ignored.

Scottish MPS also voted forcibly against the interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, but that hasn’t stopped Baghdad and Kabul becoming the most dangerous cities in the world today.

A majority of Scots would dearly love to see the obscenity of Trident removed from our waters but, again, we will be ignored.

Those Tories negotiating Brexit don’t seem to know where they are with the negotiations, where they have been with the negotiations or even where they want to go with the negotiations.

We are led by a Prime Minister who cannot organise a Cabinet reshuffle, but has her incompetent thumb itching on the nuclear button, and riding shotgun is a Foreign Secretary who gives buffoonery a bad name.

The great hope of the Tories, currently ensconced in Holyrood, is full of sound and fury but her policy folder would pass for a double blank domino.