Do your job, SNP

If I were a schoolteacher tasked with marking Angus Robertson’s essay in The Scotsman (Scottish Perspec- tive, 29 July), my marginal notes would read “must do better and try to be a little less patronising”.

As someone who is passionately pro-european and was (and still am) deeply disappointed by the result of the EU referendum,can I assure Mr Robertson that I do not feel that I was either “misled” or “hoodwinked” by what was said about Europe in the 2014 referendum into voting to remain in the UK, as he infers.

Mr Robertson’s regurgitation of the interminable SNP mantra that the result of the EU referendum was that Scotland was being “dragged out of Europe against the will of the Scottish people” is plain and simple constitutional nonsense. It is on a par with saying that Dundee and Glasgow in 2014 were kept in the UK “against the will of the citizens of Dundee and Glasgow”.

While I in no way condone the ridiculous pantomime at Westminster over the last few months, Mr Robertson and his SNP colleagues would do Scotland a favour if at long last they resolved to actually try to govern Scotland properly for the benefit of its people,something they were elected and piously promised to do. Instead, they are ignoring their fundamental responsibilities by seeking to accumulate as many chips on their shoulders as possible, so that they can keep up a constant

stream of blaming everyone else for Scotland’s undoubted ills, for many of which they alone are responsible.

JOHN DONALD Essex Road, Edinburgh