Scots can’t risk falling down indy rabbit hole

During a television interview, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said Brexit and Covid have shown how important it is for Scotland to break away from the UK.

This peacock politician claimed an independent Scotland would be better at coping with the pandemic than is currently the case.

Has he been in hibernation? Hasn’t he heard of the care home fiasco, with ten deaths at one home in his Skye constituency?

Where does he think Scotland would raise the multi-billionpound funding so far received from the UK Exchequer, and how would it be repaid?

His politics are taken from the pages of Alice in Wonderland and dangerous if Scots believe his fairy tale and fall into a rabbit hole with no way out.

Graham Wyllie, Airdrie, Lanarkshire

My fervent wish for 2021 is for the eradication of the coronavirus – and of all these unpleasant ‘isms’.

Nationalism is perhaps the worst and most pervasive, but communism has also proven to be a most unpleasant creed. Let the only ‘ism’ be internationalism.

Alexander McKay, Edinburgh

Last weekend, we saw queues of people prepared to get on crowded trains with lots of strangers to leave London and go to their families for Christmas. No wonder much of the South is in Tier 4.

Those people who travelled, potentially passing the virus on to their families, should be ashamed. Peter Ward, Newcastle upon Tyne

Photographs of crowds at a London train station last week looked like an average day. Most Londoners live in the suburbs.

Sally West, London

The North-South divide was evident last weekend. If it was the North or the Midlands being put in Tier 4 and residents were scrambling to leave, we would never hear the end of it.

R. Fox, Oxford

The Army should have locked down London and stopped all those people from leaving just before lockdown was imposed.

David Wellington, Bedford

Covid has taught us how selfish some people are. It’s devastating for them, I understand, but the rest of the country only gets one day because of this, too, despite a lowering in cases. The quicker we comply, the quicker it goes away.

Claire Gordon, Newcastle upon Tyne

The UK Government gave people a silly deadline. Before this, travel was staggered over several days. Instead we had five days’ worth of travelling in four hours. Anyone could have told Ministers that chaos would ensue.

L. Daniels, London

It’s not just here. All of Europe is going through late-notice lockdowns and U-turns. My relatives in a small town in southern Spain have been confined by police blockades for weeks, and Italy also cancelled Christmas and New Year.

K. White, Milton Keynes