At a crunch

The constitutional stand-off between Holyrood and Westminster over a Brexit “power grab” deepened afterscottish ministers dismissed crunch talks in Edinburgh

aimed at resolving the situation as “meaningless”.

Headline should read: “John Swinney fails to get his own way, as he has no intention of doing any deals with Westminster.”

Too late – the Russians have annexed it – and Alex Salmond has formed a Quisling Government with himself as Vladimir Putin’s Puppet President.

The Scottish Government is to continue funding free university places for EU students in Scotland for four years after Brexit at a cost of c £93million... yet the SNP

Highland Hero

John Macintyre

insist we Scots must pay higher rates of income tax to fund vital public services s this a vital public service

Toup

I recently counted how many politicians represent me at the various levels and was shocked to discover the answer is 19. That includes 8 MSPS (1 constituency and 7 regional).

Not a lemming

The Scottish gov’t will simply need to veto this whole bad deal for Scotland, and instruct the English gov’t to go back and try again.

RJS

Scotland has no powers under the EU since it’s not a member, but the UK is and will gain the powers after Brexit, of which Scotland will get being part of the UK.

Jomydo