The Scotsman

Coming to blows

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the ultimate vote that is way better than another referendum – an election with a Labour victory.

Sedov Trier

Unlikely, given Labour trails the Tories in the polls despite the dismal quality of the PM and present government.

Euan Gray

This talk of a “people’s” vote tells us all we need to know about this policy. If they need spin and deflection to carry the policy it is a dud! The Brexit referendum was a people’s vote and dressing another up as anything else but a rerun is a simplemind­ed con.

Only 37 per cent of the

Roastin Political thriller Bodyguard, with Scot Richard Madden, ended on Sunday after six tense episodes, giving BBC1 its biggest drama audience of the year.

Strange, that the viewing public should be obsessed with a fictional account of corruption in the government, politics, and the police. Or is it?

Samuel Coldstream

Predictabl­y, politicall­y correct , badly acted garbage.

Norm Brus

It wasn’t really that good, in truth. Killing Eve, which has been running in tandem with Bodyguard was cleverer, better acted and plotted, with moments of real dark humour.

John MCNAB

Another brilliant drama by the writer of Line of Duty, spoilt a bit by the current obsession to always be thinking about the possibilit­y of a second series. Thoroughly enjoyed it though, always rememberin­g of course that it is a fictional drama, with some obvious diversion from reality.

Esox Hunter

We should all be “blown away” by this series. Why, because everyone in the media told us to be.while it started pretty well, by the time it ended I was sick of Budd’s girning face. The plot was not fiction, it was fantasy and the acting seemed to be done by use of facial contortion­s and little else. The last episode was so contrived I think the author must have let his six-year-old daughter finish it off for him.

Boyd Heales

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