Westminster calling shots

Sir, - So Nicola Sturgeon will inform us of her latest position on a second referendum by the end of the month. Fair enough but what does her opinion matter?

David Mundell has confirmed there won’t be another separation referendum before the start of the next Holyrood parliament in 2021.

In practice this means 2023 if - and it’s a big if - a nationalist majority is returned to Holyrood. And anyway, let’s remember a vote once in a generation takes us to 2030/32.

With the SNP’s star shining ever less brightly, whichever party governs at Westminster, Downing Street calls the shots. Martin Redfern. Merchiston Gardens, Edinburgh.

Already a xenophobic little Britain is starting to take shape – Europe’s unwelcoming, impoverished, isolated offshore archipelago in the wastes of the North Atlantic

Life can be good after Brexit

Sir, - In reply to Vanessa Glynn, Don’t rule out staying in EU (June 22), more than 80% of the electorate in the general election voted for the two main parties supporting Brexit which will return to our own Parliament control over our laws, borders and money.

Much has already been ceded in the misguided cause of creating a united states of Europe without that objective having been put to any vote.

The EU referendum decision was backed by more than 17 million UK citizens.

Scotland, a constituent nation of the UK, must abide by that choice.

Ms Glynn suggests these democratic decisions should be overturned, a view typical of the EU Commission’s reaction when confronted with No responses in previous national referenda.

Ms Glynn presents a one-sided, mainly financial justification for overruling the public vote, disregarding the desirability and potential UK national benefits of controlling our own democratic destiny, while, of course, remaining on the best of business-like terms with our continental friends. (Dr) Charles Wardrop. 111 Viewlands Road West, Perth.