Back Brexit plan

Should Theresa May really be listening to Nicola Sturgeon on Brexit (Scotsman Comment, 7 August)? How could the UK Government possibly conduct a major international negotiation when the people you are negotiating with already know your Plan B, as recommended by Ms Sturgeon? Your editorial column also seeks to propagate this fantasy that we can be in the Single Market and Customs Union without actually being in the EU. We all know that none of these things are possible, and we need to call them out when we see them in print.

This process is coming to a head now, and it is time for all of us to engage our brains. It may be unfashionable to say so, but we will get a settlement agreed, simply because the issue at hand is too important for both sides not to agree. We might expect the EU negotiators to try to undermine the UK position, but we must not do that ourselves. Ms Sturgeon has a different objective in all this which we all know about, and is not the best person to be listening to.

The Brexit plan being put forward will suit Scotland more than many of the other options, especially the one that says we should stay in the EU but pretend that we are not.

The £1.2 billion investment in Edinburgh looks a lot more interesting. Why can’t we be reading about that, instead of going along with Ms Sturgeon’s continual campaign

to split hairs in an argument that will take neither her nor anyone else to anywhere they want to be.

We need to focus on getting a good result and move on. The SNP have previously said that they would not support Brexit legislation under any circumstances, thereby leaving themselves

politically irrelevant in this process. I would imagine Theresa May knows this only too well.

VICTOR CLEMENTS Taybridge Terrace, Aberfeld