‘Blatant hypocrisy’ of UK Unionists is clear

Sir, – The Tories have lost elections in Scotland in 1959, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1974 (twice), 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019.

In the most recent election Boris Johnson received 43% of the vote. In 2017 the then prime minister Theresa May got 42.3% and in 2015 the then prime minister David Cameron got 36.8%. Neither Thatcher nor Blair in their landslides ever achieved more than 44% of the popular vote.

Each of these governments pursued wildly unpopular policies such as bank bailouts, wars, privatisation and the poll tax.

The favourite stockphrase was always they were the “democratically elected” government so what they were doing was “legitimate”.

These same Unionist parties are trying to say that the SNP’s 45% of the vote (never achieved by any UK Government since 1979) is not a mandate for a second independence referendum.

The Tories are even ludicrously claiming their 43% is a “stonking mandate” for Brexit despite more people voting against them than for them.

The Unionists seem not to care about the blatant hypocrisy.

The Unionists are now trying to say that 55% of people voted for parties who opposed a second independence referendum.

This is another lie. Sixty-five per cent of Scots voted for parties who were either in favour of a new referendum or who did not rule it out in the second half of the current parliament.

Only the Tories and Lib Dems explicitly ruled it out and they were routed.

Smirking bufoonish public school boy ghoul Boris Johnson epitomises all the worst characteristics of the Tory upper-class Hooray Henrys.

It seems almost predestined that Johnson will be the last prime minister of the UK. Alan Hinnrichs. 2 Gillespie Terrace, Dundee.