EU betrayer

Jacob Rees-mogg has described the Commons Brexit Committee as defeatist and claims the will of the people is being betrayed. As Scotland had a clear majority for Remain, we Scots are therefore second class citizens, and the 48 per cent whose will is no longer that “of the people” will feel that duplicity and rancour has consumed a once-decent political system.

The fishing industry is already suspicious that Cabinet double dealing will sacrifice them again. Farmers who voted to escape the bureaucratic EU agricultural policy have to ask themselves: “Do they seriously believe that grants for farmers will ever be as generous as at present?” Will the Highlands ever again get such well-targeted help as they received from the EU?

The haulage and aerospace industries have added their dire warnings of the consequences of Brexit. Are our spineless Scottish Conservative MPS going to continue to frustrate the will of the Scottish people by refusing to speak out against the hotheads?

Are we happy that Boris Johnson again recently claimed that all the money we pay into Europe will go to the NHS – and if so, what money will be left for farming grants and universities?

And how badly will we be economically affected if we don’t compromise with the EU, and with what political consequences?

ANDREW VASS Corbiehill Place, Edinburgh