Win-win hopes

Following Theresa May’s latest Commons defeat, Nicola Sturgeon reiterates her desire for a second EU referendum. Her fingers are firmly crossed that this will be win-win for her independence objective.

Whatever the result, she’ll insist it’s a precedent for another Scottish independence referendum – if we ignore the people’s democratic wishes once, why not twice?

Despite her recently acquired pro-eu credentials (a 2014 Yes win would have taken Scotland out of the EU for years), the nationalist leader will undoubtedly long for a repeat of the 2016 result, with the UK voting Leave and Scotland Remain.

If the Uk-wide result is Remain, the SNP’S independence raison d’être is massively undermined. On the other hand, Ms Sturgeon will gleefully seize on a result where Scotland again votes Remain and the UK as a whole Leave and repeat her indyref2 demands.

For Ms Sturgeon, it’s always independence first and the EU, I suspect, a distant second.

MARTIN REDFERN Woodcroft Road, Edinburgh

The EU intends ending daylight saving time, which would mean no changing of

the clocks. This would be detrimental in Scotland, particularly the further north you go.

There was also talk a while ago of standardising kettles and reducing the power of vacuum cleaners.

This nonsense annoys people and is one of the reasons why folk voted out in the referendum.

It is typical of the centralising, controlling EU, which is determined to standardise everything irrespective of the effect on its citizens.

It is much the same as the policies adopted by the SNP Government, which is why they are so desperate to remain in the EU and drag us back in if Brexit ever materialises.

Almost four out of ten people in Scotland voted out in the referendum when there was virtually no Leave campaign in Scotland. Hardly a ringing endorsement of that institution.

JACK WATT Bernstane Loan, St Ola, Orkney