IN the midst of the Brexit shambles, the bile-inducing wedding of the freeloaders, us long-suffering nationalists were due a good laugh, and we got it in the shape of the Four Riders of the Apocryphal and their grandstanding appearance at the Policy Exchange summit in Londinium.

They even threw in a support act by the name of Michael Gove! In a day of self-deluding guff, they told a gullible, Unionist audience that there would be no second indyref, because “Scots do not want it”. So said the man with the magic eyebrows, one A Darling Esq. Oh yeah? What about the near 50% of the Scottish population then Alistair? Do they not count? Is it only the other half you consider in your flimsy and biased speech?

Then The Colonel took to the stage and proceeded to tell anyone who was daft enough to listen to her that she “would happily never fight another referendum”. Well that’s good news for us, as we might be able to look forward to an even-handed, mature debate when the event comes to pass! She also went on to tell us that the SNP were trying to “weaponise” Brexit in order to achieve their independence goal. That’s rich coming from someone affiliated to the very party who are hell-bent on sacrificing our nation (Scotland) at the Brexit altar, and her “advice” to Saint Theresa was to oppose any request for said referendum.

Isn’t it just wonderful to live in such a democratic and free society Ruthie? It makes one want to ask the question, again, what are you so afraid of in holding another referendum? Why, when the polls show a slight upswing in favour, do you all feel the need to jump on a stage and scream “SNP Baaad!!”?

At this juncture sane people were beginning to titter, but her closing number had us rolling in the aisles. “We delivered a better system of devolution ... and we can build a stronger nation for all”. If she read her history she would see that the Conservative Party was against devolution, and remains so to this day, and as for building a stronger nation? I don’t think so. At the moment, Ruth, your Westminster mistress is doing her level best to try and strip the Scottish Parliament of powers that are rightfully ours, their current position on Brexit is splitting their precious Union asunder, but none of that will be their doing – oh no – that will be the fault of that intransigent Scottish Government for standing up and refusing to give way to their “power grab”.

Davidson would be better employed in working with the Scottish Parliament she was elected to rather than heading south to preach to the converted in some Unionist enclave. But that would not suit her style as she is now a busted flush in her homeland, and her weasel words count for naught. She has lost all the small amount of credibility she ever had here and would probably be a liability to the No campaign this time around.

So the closing speech was left to the arch goon of them all, Michael Gove, he of the planet of the continual blue skies. His wizard wheeze was to tell the enraptured audience that his party and the Unionism it supports offers a “warm home” (whatever that means) to people of diverse and distinct backgrounds. These would be the same people your party are hell bent on deporting on a whim, preventing from entering the country, and demonising while they are here then Michael? For Gove to say with a straight face that his party are not “identitarians” is laughable in the extreme, and to at the same time group the SNP and Ukip as two of a kind is bordering on slanderous. There has never been a more identitarian party in British politics than the one that currently clings on to power in Westminster, and remember Michael, when the Ukip bubble burst, whose party did the sad little Ukippers go vote for? Yup, you guessed it – your party!

Ade Hegney
Helensburgh