David Cameron did not deserve round of applause

AT David Cameron’s last Westminster appearance as Premier, the SNP’s Angus Robertson expressed best wishes for the future to Mr Cameron and his family, but unlike your correspondents Jimmy Armstrong and Judi Martin (Letters, July 15) I was pleased that the SNP MPs didn’t applaud the Prime Minister of Great Brexit whose reign of austerity saw the number of people needing food banks rise from around 41,000 when Mr Cameron first became Prime Minister to more than a million when he left. That Tony Blair also got a standing ovation when he left office says it all. Ruth Marr, 99 Grampian Road, Stirling. DO Jimmy Armstrong and Judi Martin not remember that it was not protocol to clap in Parliament and that the SNP members were chastised for doing so early in this session? Once bitten, twice shy. Bill Hunt, 11 Fairfield Crescent, Dumfries. I HAVE only one reservation with the sentiments expressed by Jimmy Armstrong on the discourteous contempt accorded to David Cameron by Westminster SNP members. He concludes by stating “what a graceless performance from a sad wee country”. Perhaps the intention was “.from those elected members who portray us as a sad wee country”. Scotland has never been nor ever will be sad, regardless of any political sway. Shame on those who would propagate the myth that we wallow in self-pity. Allan C Steele, 22 Forres Avenue, Giffnock. WITH the appointment of Boris John Johnson as Foreign Secretary, our “safe pair of hands” Prime Minister has just dropped her first catch (May wields axe”, The Herald, July 14). Dave Biggart, Southcroft, Knockbuckle Road, Kilmacolm.