Dirty linen

Elizabeth Scott must be on Nicola Sturgeon's Christmas card list (Letters, 2 February). She describes the scenario around Ms Sturgeon’s conduct during Covid as if she was Mother Teresa, ministering to the sick and needy in Scotland rather than scheming with her fellow Nationalists for the downfall of the UK as she really was. The very idea that the opposition are “bullies” is so grotesque as to be farcical.

In fact, the hard truth is that Sturgeon and her fellows were totally focused on doing things differently from Westminster, just to be different, not for sound medical reasons. The full involvement of thoroughly politicised civil servants whose role demands neutrality as part of the British Civil Service is alarming.

The evidence shows that the

SNP were “winging it” while a top civil servant relishes “a good old-fashioned rammy” with the UK Government. These are not the words of a government, but of a subversive, disruptive fifth column.

As Ms Scott says, Boris Johnson did, indeed hand over to other people. They were qualified medical professionals. Here in Scotland, however, we were treated to daily party political broadcasts and a medical director who admitted that the technical aspect required him to “wing it”.

That is the standard of care we had in Scotland and the SNP benefited from many millions of pounds-worth of free, daily, prime-time TV propaganda.

The inquiry has made it crystal clear that their divisive nationalism was always to the forefront, rather than concern for Scotland’s people. Well, luckily they didn't succeed and now the truth is coming out. Their dirty linen is on display and it is not a pretty sight. Peter Hopkins

Edinburgh