Caught on the hop

THERESA May has caught everyone on the hop. Let us hope that in scotland voters will take the opportunity of a General Election to show their displeasure at the SNP’s very poor record in dealing with the devolved responsibilities that are supposed to be their focus.

The way to do this is by voting for the constituency candidate who has the best chance of unseating an SNP MP. That will differ from constituency to constituency — as Labour, Liberal democrat, Conservative.

some SNP MPs have demonstrated their unfitness for office. What do you do with Paul Monaghan, MP (Caithness, sutherland and Easter ross), whose ignorance is such that he thinks the only way to accumulate a deficit is by borrowing?

Because the scottish Government has limited borrowing powers, he says, it cannot run up a deficit. A man who does not know that scots spend far more than they earn in revenue is not fit to be an MP.

Apart from anything else, it is thoroughly unhealthy that scotland became pretty much a oneparty state at the 2015 General Election. Let’s have a bit more pluralism this time. JILL STEPHENSON, edinburgh. WITH Theresa May catching Nicola sturgeon out with her snap General Election call, we can but hope that the scottish electorate will vote out many of the embarrassing SNP MPs who are supposed to represent scottish constituencies.

I cringe at the antics of the SNP cabal in the House of Commons, and it would do so much for the image of scotland to see a major change in the chamber.

e.nichoLLS, Dunfermline, Fife.