Bee in her bonnet

I wonder if Lesley Riddo ch ever reads her own articles. If she did, she might notice the complete inconsistency of her argument about Boris Johnson and the” first past the post” system (Perspective, December 14) that she regards as being “destructive”, rather than decisive.

First past the post normally gives us a government which can run the country effectively because it does not fudge everything, which a system which requires coalitions does. She implies that she would pre - fer a bizarre system such as proportional representation, which is used elsewhere and which often results in crippled government in such countries as Italy or Belgium.

She describe san attempt made by Boris Johnson to speak to leaders of the two major EU powers as“clumsy ”, but I bet that if he had not attempted to make contact with them, he would have been described as“aloof ”, or“standof fish ”. He is simply trying to talk to the organ-grinder, rather than to his monkey, as the EU Commission demands.

Boris really can’t win with Lesley, can he? Always wrong. Then again, Les leyprov es that she has a bee in her bonnet about the EU. Indeed, her total in consistency reveals itself, when “Remain-voting Scots” get a look-in, but the many hundreds of thousands of Leave-voting Scots don’t get a mention.

That isn’t very inclusive, but, there again, her approach echoes that of the EU. If you’re with the mainstream, you count. If you aren’t, you don’t count.

It's not really terribly different from first past the post, is it?

ANDREW HN GRAY Craiglea Drive, Edinburgh voters in Glasgow by moving Edinburgh to Tier 2, as justified by science? It would seem that Ms Sturgeon is quite happy to use “science” as a smokescreen when it suits her purposes but politics continues to be a major factor in her decision-making.

BOB MACDOUGALL Oxhill Kippen, Stirlingshire