Tory brass neck
The Scottish Conservative leader, Ruth Davidson, cannot be certain that her own Scottish MPS will support the Prime Minister’s latest Brexit proposals, so it requires some brass neck to demand that the SNP does so.
Ms Davidson was a support-
er of Remain and knows full well that the latest half-in, halfout mish-mash falls short of what is best for Scotland and the UK.
If, as she claimed on Tuesday, there is only this option and “no-deal” on the table it is due to the disgracefully inept governance of her party, con-
sum ed as it is by personal ambition, conniving and backstabbing.
The Scottish majority to remain has been ignored and our SNP MPS have been insulted and abused by Ms Davidson’s Westminster colleagues.
Instead of demanding their support for a position she probably has no confidence in, it would be more appropriate to apologise to the Scottish people for this sorry mess of her party’s making and, in particular, apologise to the 74 per cent of Edinburgh voters who supported remain, including those she is meant to repre - sent.
ROBERT FARQUHARSON
Lee Crescent, Edinburgh
Britain is in a mess because a bunch of nationalist cranks and Tory backwoodsmen, given credibility by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove,m isled referendum voters with ludicrous claims they had no expectation of having to fulfil.
They said B rex it would make Britain both richer and more independent, with more money for the health service, total control of immigration, continued friction-free trade with Europe and absolutely no costs or downsides.
In the two years since, the gulf between the easy, prosperous, productive Brexit that Leavers expect and the grim, complicated cost of disentangling economies intertwined for decades has poisoned and paralysed British politics.
I see no solution other than parliament cancelling Article 50, accepting the EU’S four freedoms (goods, capital, services and labour), the oversight of the ECHR and joining the euro at the pre -referendum rate of £1=€1.35.
(REV DR) JOHN CAMERON
Howard Place, St Andrews