Johnson as a modern Sulla?

Madam, – In 81BC the Roman Senate appointed Sulla; dictator legibus faciendis et reipublicae constituendae causa (“dictator for the making of laws and for the settling of the constitution”).

Sulla was given absolute power with no limit placed on his supremacy.

No single person in Rome had ever been given such authority.

It set the scene for Caesar becoming dictator and for the end of the Roman republic.

Boris Johnson’s proroguing Parliament

in order to foist a hard Brexit catastrophe shows that he considers himself to be a 21st Century Sulla.

His actions would not be out of place in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe or the Old Soviet Union.

Boris Johnson is an unrepentant liar. A blustering contemptuous ignoramus.

Usually parliaments are recalled in times of crisis. This is the first time in history Parliament has been suspended in order to create a crisis.

No amount of Tory spin can disguise the repulsive repellant stench from Johnson’s thoroughly antidemocratic putsch.

It’s a testament to the

advanced state of rot at the heart Westminster. This is a coup, plain and simple.

One silver lining is the departure of politicianof-no-consequence Ruth Davidson.

A shrill, insincere waffling popinjay.

Ruth Davidson’s career can best be summed up by what General Lucian Truscott said about Lloyd Fredendall:

“Small in stature, loud and rough in speech, he was outspoken in his opinions and critical of superiors and subordinates alike.

“He was inclined to jump to conclusions which were not always well founded.

“Fredendall rarely

left his command post for personal visits and reconnaissance, yet he was impatient with the recommendations of subordinates more familiar with the terrain and other conditions than he.”

Alan Hinnrichs. 2 Gillespie Terrace, Dundee.