Scottish Government winning its own Euros

As we returned yesterday from two weeks in Yorkshire on holiday, approaching the bridge at Coldstream, my chest swelled with pride. I was coming home, to the home of the European champions. No, not the footballing euros, the Covid euros.

My first task on returning was to buy my first copy of the Scotsman in two weeks; with only snippets of Nationalist jingoism, I was in need of confirmation that it was alive and kicking – thank you Mary Thomas (Letters, 12 July) for reminding me of what I was missing.

In footballing parlance, the great managers always look forward, not back, to the next game. In order to do so one needs to eradicate all the mistakes from the mind and go full on with positivity. This is where super manager Nicola Sturgeon, and her followers are indeed euro chumps.

Covid capital of Europe – ignore. Ferries rotting in dry dock – ignore. Children’s hospital debacle – ignore etc. No – forget the disasters and keep going until you win – no rear view mirrors on the bus, no thinking what state we would be in if we had stuck with the EU vaccination approach – no. Chuck in a bit of the blame game – borders not shut, hindsight regurgitated time and time again.

What SNP zealots are able to do, and this is the real skill in the coaching team – after a bad result, last summer we are almost Covid free, now the capital of Europe, blame the UK government on the Indian variant spread. All they see is their version of the positive game, the trophy on the pedestal – Indyref2. The sheer brass neck of this party and its followers to eradicate, in their view with impunity, the shambles they have presided over is nothing short of incredible.

Heaven help us when the drivers of the bus with no wing mirrors have to reverse – the collision will be calamitous.

DAVID MILLAR Lauder, Scottish Borders