Looks like case of double standards

Sir,– What a difference a few months make. Last summer, Jose Manuel Barroso, the outgoing president of the European Commission, was hailed by unionists as the authoritative voice on an independent Scotland’s position in the EU.

His word was gospel and unionists were quick to cite his opposition to an independent Scotland’s EU membership, as the final word.

Fast forward a few months and Mr Barroso is now Johnny Foreigner, a jumpedup EU bureaucrat sticking his nose in the UK’s affairs.

Unionists had the barefaced cheek to cry fear and uncertainty over an independent Scotland, and now not a cheep from them over the uncertainty of the UK’s EU membership and all the risks to jobs and trade it will entail.

Double standards springs to mind. RMF Brown. Markinch, Fife. announced a £7 million investment for repairs and improvements.

Now Prestwick Airport is to be “loaned” another £10 million.

Wait a minute, “loaned”, but the taxpayers already own this airport so when the plug is pulled then it is taxpayers’ money down the drain.

Passenger flights at Prestwick Airport are as few as one a day so the airport has no future.

By comparison the highly successful Glasgow Airport has 100 flights a day.

I trust no more money will be ploughed into this politically motivated “white elephant”.

The Prestwick Airport slogan “pure dead brilliant” was one-third correct – the middle word. Clark Cross. 138 Springfield Road, Linlithgow.