Breaking point

Dave Anderson ( Letters, October 23) says Scotland is breaking the Union apart when it’s Johnson, Gove and Cummings who are breaking a Union that no longer works for the devolved nations.

Boris and Co are using the Brexit fiasco to ram the Internal Market Bi l l down t he throats of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, a bill that destroys the devolution settlement and returns all devolved powers to a Westminster dominated by 533 English MPS.

The media has so far focused on t he i nte r nat i onal l awbreaking aspect of this bill but have ignored the profoundly negative implications for Scotland's food quality, environment, teaching standards, law, the NHS, and even our water. An unelected quango will be free to over- rule the Scottish Parliament and could force fracking on Scotland and even take Scotland to court to give foreign companies access to our NHS.

London won’t come close to replacing the £ 2.1bn Scotland receives annually from the EU structural fund with its paltr y shared prosperity fund where the spending will be determined by Westminster along with a Union flag tacked on whether we like it or not. Condemnation of this naked power grab has come from the NFU, TUC, STUC and the House of Lords.

When Scottish independence is restored, Scotland can make its own decisions and not be ruled by a distant government that treats its people with contempt.

LEAH GUNN BARRETT Merchiston Crescent, Edinburgh