Emptying rhetoric

SOME may question the talents of the SNP leader at Westminster but Ian Blackford certainly has one unique skill.

When he rose to speak in the Queen’s Speech debate, the House emptied in a rapid rush for the doors. It was almost empty – but for the SNP group – in seconds.

It may well be his never-ending and relentlessly repetitive grievances and bluster have reached the places where no other has.

He must be thrilled to see how popular he is with other MPs.

ALEXANDER MCKAY, Edinburgh. IT HAS been reported that Ian Blackford was wearing an ‘English’, rather than a ‘Scottish’ rose at the state opening of Parliament.

After seeing a multitude of books on Scottish history and culture in the background of his party colleagues’ Zoom interviews over the last two years, you would have thought at least one of them might have read them at some point and told him.

DAVID BONE, Girvan, ayrshire.