Johnson has been reckless

MICHAEL Gove can’t count. Parties supporting independence got 2,640,892 constituency and list votes in the Scottish parliamentary election. Parties supporting the United Kingdom got 2,627,758.

Many voices have called that election a referendum on a referendum.

If the election had been a referendum the result would be taken from people’s votes, not from seats obtained in the Parliament of Scotland, where the two parties supporting independence have a much clearer majority. There is a majority of popular votes cast for those two parties, but it’s 13,134, which is a Rizla paper. It’s nevertheless a majority on the Gove scale.

Whatever way they are contemplated, these votes justify a referendum on Scottish independence because of the disaster wished on the British people by Boris Johnson’s mendacious campaign of vandalism against the European Union.

Scotland voted against that folly and many like me, who were lifelong Conservatives and unionists, are now Scottish nationalists and want our European citizenship back.

Mr Johnson has been irresponsible and reckless in knifing the United Kingdom through the heart.

Tim Cox,

Bern, Switzerland.