Boris Johnson’s accession to Prime Minister is unlikely to bring a no-deal Brexit

It is unprecedented that an incoming prime minister and leader of a party has been confronted with resignations from existing Cabinet members and outright opposition from many of its MPS.

The Tory party has no majority and is reliant on the DUP. With the internal defections from its own ranks and the fact that the current Chancellor would bring down his own party to prevent a nodeal shows how ungovernable, unstrong and unstable the precious Union has become.

Its internal contradictions and delusions have caught up with it at Westminster. The constitutional monarch is being touted as one who may have to step in and take a political decision if the new leader cannot command a majority in the Commons!

The newly-elected leader of the Lib Dems – ironically, a former minister in the Torylib Dem regime of Clegg and Cameron – is praising their achievements! A closet Tory, no doubt?

So, as lines merge and split across the UK parties, there is no doubt that chaos in the Union body politic and the resulting ebbing of trust and confidence as even former PMS of yesteryear, including the outgoing one, pitch in their pennyworth, will continue as the new erratic and hubristic PM, Boris Johnson, goes to Brussels and is referred to the existing Withdrawal Agreement as non-negotiable.

JOHN EDGAR Langmuir Quadrant, Kilmaurs

The principle on which these resignations are based is that Boris Johnson refuses to rule out a hard no-deal Brexit.

The sanctimonious wouldbe resigners are too brainless to realise that a no-deal Brexit is the last thing that the EU wants. Of the 28 member states, the UK is the third largest contributor to the coffers of the EU. The possibility of nodeal is the only upshot which frightens the EU mandarins, because it would seriously threaten the existence of their gravy train.

It is an invaluable bargaining point in future negotiations and must remain on the table. If we did leave without a deal, other member states would probably follow, notably France. Then that rapacious, incompetent, corrupt EU organisation would implode – and good riddance to it.

DAVID HOLLINGDALE Easter Park Drive, Edinburgh

I’ve just watched Boris the buffoon being elected and all I can say is, if we in Scotland don’t vote for independence now, we never will! It’s not just the shambles of Brexit he threatens, or the well-known derisive attitudes to Scotland he holds, but it’s the prospect of being ruled by all his dodgy friends at home and, notably in the case of Trump, abroad.

This also should be a wake up call to the SNP to step up the campaign for independence and not accept that we need Boris’s permission for a referendum.

We should make it clear that if the SNP wins the next general election in Scotland and a majority for independence in the next Scottish Parliament, we will declare independence as most of the 200 countries in the UN have done in the past.

HUGH KERR (MEP 1994-99) Wharton Square, Edinburgh

What an amazing man Boris Johnson is. The media, the BBC, crabbed colleagues and even so-called friends all beavering away at his character, morals, personality and motives, and still he is up there fighting for our country.

As that great American philosopher John Wayne said: “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.’’ Thank you Boris!

DOUG CLARK Muir Wood Grove, Currie