Columnist is wide of the mark

Sir, – Your columnist Jenny Hjul is never slow to bandy about epithets, so I am sure she will not mind me branding her a one-trick, ultra-British nationalist.

As such, every column she writes and every position she takes is solely predicated on “what is bad for the SNP?” and as a consequence her every utterance lacks coherence and intellectual credibility.

Take the recent column “No to rematch of the day” (August 22) in which she takes the tack that another EU referendum is a nonstarter because – primarily – it would give succour to those who are calling for a new referendum on Scottish independence.

However, Jenny coats it slightly by suggesting that “we made our choice and we must see it through... that is democracy”.

However, not withstanding the fact this principle could be applied to every election, it ignores Jenny’s position the last time an election was called it was in “un-democratic” fashion.

The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 set the date of the general election on May 7 2015 and provided that thereafter general elections were to be scheduled to be on the first Thursday in May in every fifth year.

Therefore, the next election should have taken place on May 7 2020.

However, Theresa May – sensing Labour blood – went to the country in June 2017.

Did Ms Hjul rage and rant at this affront to democracy?

I think we all know the answer to that and a mere sample of headlines from her column in those months will give (again) the flavour of her thoughts.

They included “Momentum is against SNP”, “Is Nicola Sturgeon now a liability for the SNP?”, “Are Nationalists panicking?” and – most pointedly – “This is your chance to save the UK”.

Ms Hjul cares not a whit for democracy or principle but only in what best thwarts the SNP.

There is no contortion she won’t perform to ensure that every situation is twisted to an anti-SNP rant and to suggest this is tiring to the humble reader would be an under-statement.

However, as her articles only boost SNP support – as irksome as Ms Hjul is – it is probably best she stays in post. Henry Malcolm.

331 Clepington Road, Dundee.