First minister must stand up to Westminster

Madam, – Insults, abuse and contempt have been thrown at her by Boris Johnson and the Tories.

Yet Nicola Sturgeon still says that there can be cordial relations with Westminster.

Day after day she insists on acting as a supplicant begging the Tories’ goodwill for a Section 30 order to hold a new independence plebiscite.

Such niceties bind the independence movement in a strait jacket.

Westminster is a ruthless colonial power.

They are exploiters who have never been bound by morality or legality.

This begs the question just how much more evidence of this the first minister actually needs.

It’s simply not possible to have normal relations with the Westminster gangster state.

It would seem Nicola Sturgeon is incapable of recognising these obvious facts.

The humiliations of accepting the supremacy of Boris Johnson simply encourages more humiliations. These will worsen and all the first minister will do is meekly complain.

There is no reason whatsoever for this fear of Westminster.

The Tories are a morally bankrupt, despised and weak entity.

Boris Johnson has been humiliated by Ireland over Brexit.

There is no reason for Holyrood not to do the same.

This can be done by holding a referendum and a campaign of nonviolent resistance against Westminster.

Nicola Sturgeon unfortunately is incapable of doing this.

Her strategy has failed and she should step aside. Alan Hinnrichs. 2 Gillespie Terrace , Dundee .