Party gripped by inertia

Sir, - Nicola Sturgeon’s coalition of chaos in which the SNP joins Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour rump and Tim Farron’s handful of Lib Dems to defeat Theresa May’s Tories is beyond parody.

Mr Corbyn immediately dismissed the idea, clearly unwilling to join forces with a devolved government that had overseen “a deplorable increase in child poverty and the working poor”.

The First Minister forgot her granny’s warning about being careful what you wish for when she suggested the Prime Minister confirm her position in a general election.

Having hit the heights in 2015, the SNP can only go backwards and its muzzled troops cannot hide the incoherence of its core policies or its leader’s tiresome girning and administrative inertia. Rev Dr John Cameron. 10 Howard Place, St Andrews.