Losers’ game

Is there any way in which Gordon Brown can be put out to pasture permanently? No sooner has the SNP been put back in its box then he pops up with another crazy plan to make a mess of the Union in pursuit of what? I don't really know, but Nicola Sturgeon must be delighted to have had Mr Brown pull the stake out of her heart.

Mr Brown seems to think that tinkering with the Union (I can think of much more evocative terms than “tinkering with”, by the way) will somehow persuade Scots whose critical powers are so atrophied that they vote SNP to vote Labour. By all means, vote Labour rather then SNP, but please, do not even look at the plans being proposed.

Messrs Brown and Starmer want to give SNP ministers the right to “join international agreements and bodies such as Erasmus, Unesco and the Nordic Council” (your report, December 5). If you do that, they will simply say, “we want more” and “we still want independence”. You can't outsnp the SNP. Does he still not understand that?

Creating a second elected chamber at Westminster will simply throw a cat among the pigeons and cause endless chaos as the new chamber competes with the Commons to be top dog!

I am sure that my despair is reflected across the whole UK. Perhaps someone can persuade the Supreme Court to make Mr Brown illegal?

ANDREW H N GRAY

Edinburgh