Nonsense to say ‘no mandate’

Arrogant mutterings of Tory government ministers in London pontificating about a new Scottish independence referendum being divisive, yet failing to acknowledge the divisive nature of their mismanaged hard Brexit

SIR, – From a UK hanging on a shoogly peg what is all this nonsense about no mandate for independence? In Westminster with only one solitary Scottish Tory MP and one confused Labour MP there is a massive majority of SNP members, supported by a Holyrood government elected on a mandate for independence.

However, from a divided Labour Party the old political bruiser Gordon Brown sallies forth on an off-white charger with yet another ‘vow’ proclaiming greater powers and federal status for Holyrood, which of course, like the last time, he can never deliver.

The situation becomes even more farcical by the arrogant mutterings of Tory government ministers in London pontificating about a new Scottish independence referendum being divisive, yet failing to acknowledge the divisive nature of their mismanaged hard Brexit, right across the UK, along with the ludicrous Lib Dems calling for another EU referendum while opposing one for Scotland! Grant Frazer, Cruachan, Newtonmore