Bitter dose of reality for delusional SNP

WhAt bitter gall for Nicola Sturgeon to be told by the Prime Minister the simple truth that the SNP is out of touch with the people of Scotland.

Miss Sturgeon is forever conflating her party with Scotland as a whole, forever purporting to speak for the entire country when she speaks only for her narrow band of separatists.

Miss Sturgeon’s head has been turned by her over-hyped Growth Commission report.

She imagines it to be some revolutionary blueprint for prosperity for an independent Scotland when it’s no more than the promise of a decade of misery followed by faint hope we might then be able to crawl back to around where we are today.

A ‘new chapter’ opening in the bid to break up Britain? Nonsense – this is all little more than a reprise of old wishful thinking.

theresa May sliced through the Nationalist fog like a laser, repeating again her assessment – devastating for the separatists – that now is not the time for another pointless trot through the defeated independence arguments.

And there was a glorious dose of practicality from the PM for good measure: ‘the most important thing for the future of Scotland is to continue to be part of the UK’s internal market.’

how that will lift the hearts of hardpressed businesses and workers fretting about their livelihoods, knowing another round of constitutional distraction can only damage the economy still further.

there is no appetite for indyref 2, support for separation has stalled and Scots want politicians to deal with real-world problems and not faux grievance and high-risk speculation.

in grasping all this and telling it straight to the delusional SNP, Mrs May displays all the nous and mettle that propelled her to 10 Downing Street.