Tories’ travails
Few Tory MPS and few members of the public will have been swayed one way or the other in their opinion of Michael Gove by his admission of having used the illegal drug cocaine in the past. The public tend to presume that most of our Oxbridge educated senior Tories have a fairly louche past and that they all have reliably progressive views on social issues.
Even so, Michael Gove’ s admission is a useful reminder to any social conservative who votes for the misnamed Conservative Party that they are voting for the continued destruction of all they hold dear, including marriage, the nation and our Judeo-christian moral heritage.
In essence, all we can hope for from the winning candidate in the Conservative leadership election is that they deliver a tolerable Brexit and that they keep the wreckers of Jeremy Corbyn’ s Labour Party from power. To expect any thing more from any of them is delusional.
OTTO INGLIS Inveralmond Grove, Edinburgh
Following the potential candidates for our next Prime Minister, I am left wonderin g–if we discount from high office anyone who has in the last 20 years indulged in drugs, anti-semitism, homophobia, meeting terrorists groups like Hezbollah or been guilty of inappropriate behaviour towards a member of the opposite sex, will we have any MPS left?
JAMES WATSON Randolph Crescent, Dunbar
The Tories are casting around desperately among candidates who are regarded as dodgy characters by the majority of voters.
Such charmers as Boris Johnson seem the best hope for the future but his claim to be a One Nation Conservative
is laughable when you consider he is offering huge tax cuts for the better-off, and simply refuses to factor the shortterm dislocation of a hard Brexit into his budget calculations. At least Sajid Javid is considering the fire fighting needed for sorting out the Irish border problems.
The fact that Ruth Davidsons up ports J avid( Scotsman, June 10), and the plan to throw more money to the Irish should make us S cots realise the benefits of a modest Corbyn election victor y with Labour dependent on such small parties as the SNP for support. In such circumstances our future may not look so bleak after all.
ANDREW VASS Corbiehill Place Edinburgh