AT PMQs Ian Blackford accused Mrs May of putting her party’s interests before those of the country. She didn’t deny it but merely retorted that the SNP was putting party before “country” in pursuing independence.
Two questions arise from this. By saying in effect “well, you’re doing it too”, isn’t Mrs May admitting what she has been accused of? An extraordinary admission, which she should be reminded of, frequently!
And then, which of the four countries in the UK is Mrs May referring to? If Scotland, then she patently has too little knowledge on which to base such a sweeping statement. But if the country whose interests would be damaged by Scottish independence is England, what has happened to the famed “broad shoulders” of Westminster?
Derek Ball
Bearsden
REGARDING the Treaty of Union of 1707 and the justifiable clamour for indyref2, I take it that our best sympathetic legal experts have been through this document with the finest of tooth combs?
Jim Finnie
Pitlochry
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