A bubble burst

Try explaining to an overseas friend how breaking up one eminently successful union of states is laudable yet breaking up an even larger, less successful, union is not. How a constitutional referendum in a region of Spain, with a turnout of 40 per cent, is fine and whose result should be made into law but two others, in 2014 and 2016 in the UK, with massive turn-outs and clear-cut results, should be ignored.

Try explaining how a party can campaign for years for a referendum, get it, lose badly, then ignore the result and begin campaigning for the next. Is it any wonder those looking in from the outside are incredulous?

Absurdity piles upon absurdity. The SNP’S case and arguments are now making them a laughing stock to anyone existing outside of the Nationalist bubble.

ALEXANDER MCKAY New Cut Rigg, Edinburgh