Johnson visit like Caligula to Rome’s rebels

Madam, – Prime Minister Boris Johnson scuttling out of Bute House to avoid protesters, like the Cowardly Lion from Wizard of Oz, was an embarrassing sight.

This preposterous, buffoon heads the most right-wing government in UK history.

His turbo-charged no-deal Brexit “plan” will cost jobs, devalue the pound, bankrupt business and wreck the economy. Johnson is rightly despised by millions of Scots.

This Eton-Educated ‘Hooray Henry’ can barely conceal his contempt for the “lower orders”. His fiesta of empire nostalgia has almost zero significance, appealing only to those Orange Order bigots and other half-crazed Union Jack-waving knuckle draggers who can rightly be branded credulous morons.

This group’s only pleasure is to gloat at the idea of Scotland suffering the same fate as the rest of the UK as a result of a no-deal Brexit.

Britain plunges towards a no-deal exit under conditions in which, one study said, the economy may already be in a recession, with forecasts of a 10% collapse in the value of the pound and an increase in inflation to above 4%.

Boris Johnson’s visit to Scotland was very much in the role of Emperor Caligula visiting one of Rome’s rebellious provinces.

The only positive was that it nailed the lie (and it is a lie) that Ruth Davidson has any influence whatsoever over UK Government policy and, further, that the Tories’ Scottish branch has been detoxified.

The ‘Scottish’ Tories are still a viper’s nest of bigots, Orange sympathisers and sexists who are motived only by greed and war.

Alan Hinnrichs. 2 Gillespie Terrace, Dundee.