Lack of respect for result

Sir, - So, let’s get this straight: Ms Sturgeon tells the Spanish Government that the process for agreeing the Scottish referendum of 2014 was ‘a shining example’.

OK, there was the Edinburgh Agreement of October 15 2012.

Ms Sturgeon, along with Alex Salmond, David Cameron and Michael Moore signed that.

They all signed a document declaring that the referendum should ‘deliver a fair test and decisive expression of the views of people in Scotland and a result that everyone will respect’. Excellent.

The only problem is that neither Ms Sturgeon nor Mr Salmond has respected the result of that referendum.

Ever since their defeat, they have agitated for another referendum, because they didn’t win the 2014 one and they have therefore decided it wasn’t fair.

To borrow from Ms Sturgeon, I will not take lessons from someone who blatantly and publicly reneges every day on a solemn undertaking that she made.

Brexit is merely her excuse: she was agitating before that vote, and, in any case, she did not say on October 15 2012: ‘We will respect the result unless the UK leaves the EU’.

Does anyone now remember how, during the Scottish referendum campaign, Alex Salmond told David Cameron – the Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom – to ‘butt out’ of Scotland’s referendum? Yet now Ms Sturgeon – who has no role in foreign policy – intervenes in the proposed Catalan referendum.

These SNP people are utterly shameless in the double standards they maintain.

“Ever since their defeat, they have agitated for another referendum because they didn’t win the 2014 one and they have therefore decided it wasn’t fair