End nastiness of post-Brexit UK

I NEVER cease to be amazed at the continuing ability of certain unionists to ignore reality.

Brian Brown (Post-Brexit Britain a hostile place?, Letters, July 17) writes: “English people are just as friendly and considerate as Scottish people.” I have found most people around the world are friendly and considerate and do not consider themselves exceptional.

But Mr Brown must acknowledge that since the vote for Brexit there has been a spike in racist attacks in England.

Meanwhile, Scottish Police have reported no such spike here.

The same week, Jane Ann Liston (Letters, July 17) writes of a “young woman” who found work “an unpleasant experience, due to the hostility of independence supporters”.

Such incidents should have been reported to the police, just as the number of physical attacks on independence supporters in the run up to the independence referendum were.

One such attack is currently the subject of a court case.

Those of us who read and study the news from many sources are aware that the hostility in both the Scottish independence referendum and the European referendum were blatantly ramped up by a hostile British media, with one or two notable exceptions, in order to put a brake on flagging sales and without any sense of responsibility for the ensuing nastiness.

The disgraceful and dangerous attacks on Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon may have been instrumental in the subsequent death threats they both received.

It is time for the nastiness to end and for the one-eyed to open both.