Pro-union Scots are on their own

Sir, – So there you have it, Boris Johnson confirmed it from his own mouth.

He is who he is, he will not change, so the electorate must get used to it – and the bad news is there is more to come, because he has a job to finish, so “suck it up”. He didn’t actually say that, but it felt like he did.

What else can he make a mess off ? Pretty much everything, I guess.

There is a delusional man in charge of the UK, and the control systems have been gamed by his supporters.

His supporting team are currently planning to manipulate the executive of the 1922 Committee.

So not even the Conservative Party can remove his hands from the power controls. Listening to the informed political commentators, it will require the Cabinet to metaphorically wrestle control from him and his team.

Surely the Conservative backbenchers will vote him out after the recent by-election results, but the thinking is that the turnouts were low: Wakefield was 39%, and Tiverton was 47%, whereas in 2019 they were 64% and 71%, respectively.

With some time to go before the next general election, they will forget – particularly with the backing of the print and broadcast media moving the focus on.

His Levelling Up agenda is under threat as the “Blue Wall” in the Home Counties is worried that monies being earmarked for northern constituencies would be better spent further to the centre of their universe.

The infamous quote from October 6 2012 – “A pound spent in Croydon is far more of value to the country than a

pound spent in Strathclyde” – should not be forgotten by the Scottish voting public, be they pro-independence, but more so pro-union.

The union is no longer what it was and what it has been selling for 50-odd years. The clock cannot be reversed. Prounionist Scots need to realise they are on their own.

An independent Scotland – contrary to media speculation – will not be a command economy, otherwise known as a communist state.

“Small-c conservatives” are always welcomed to provide balance.

Alistair Ballantyne. Birkhill,

Angus.