It is a gross insult to liken Boris Johnson to Churchill
I TAKE grave exception to your front-page subheading today which implies Boris Johnson’s speech and actions could be Churchillian (“Prime Minister will evoke the spirit of Churchill with ‘finest hour’ address in
Kyiv”, The Herald, May 4).
Churchill united a country at war; he did not divide the four nations of Britain. Churchill made sure everyone was fed in an isolated island in the face of insurmountable odds; he did not push them into financial, food and fuel poverty. Churchill was a man for the times, not a man out of time.
Mr Johnson’s actions will not galvanise the Ukrainians to greater things, they already have a real live Churchillian figure in Volodymyr Zelenskyy, uniting the world and his country against the fascist ambitions of a tyrant.
Please let us not besmirch Churchill’s name. Mr Johnson has done much to destroy the unity of our country and its neighbours, not unite them.
Angela Fotheringham,
Stow.
■ THIS is definitely not the UK’S “finest hour”. Bumbling Boris Johnson goes to Kyiv and quotes Winston Churchill from the Second World War to commend Ukraine on its defence against Russia’s invasion. Although the UK is providing military support for the Ukrainians, the Home Office is still stagnant when it comes to getting visas for refugees seeking shelter from the war. This is embarrassing, humiliating even.
Hello Scottish Conservative supporters: when are you going to wake up?
Andy Stenton, Glasgow.