A national humiliation

TO see what is happening in Scotland and to Scotland recently is a national humiliation inflicted by the very party whose catchphrase, “Stronger for Scotland”, could be referring to a pungent vintage cheese riddled with holes and few people would know the difference.

The former and present First Ministers’ unedifying behaviours have demeaned the highest office in our land to that of a pre-title fight punch-up.

In the relatively short space of time since devolution we see our country and society riven and wrecked by a one-dimensional party whose only, single, sole, solitary raison d’etre is to do precisely that after 14 years in power.

It seems the First Minister need only utter the word “Tory” or “English” before, during or after a sentence to set off a large swathe of torch and pitchfork demonstrations and marches that Donald Trump could learn a thing or two from.

To hear the First Minister make a personal attack during a supposedly Covid-only update on Alex Salmond, accusing him of a “scorched earth policy, on the altar of his ego” only further demeans the Office of the First Minister of Scotland.

Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond may deserve each other. Scotland deserves neither of them. Allan Thompson, Bearsden.