RUTH Davidson chose to define the EU elections as an opportunity to send a message to Nicola Sturgeon that we, in Scotland, don’t want another independence referendum. Households received a leaflet from her which talked about nothing else. There were no other issues in that leaflet. It focused wholly on the call for all her supporters to thwart the independence ambitions of the SNP. So, that was the election defined for us.
We all now know that every council area in Scotland voted for the SNP apart from Orkney and Shetland, who habitually vote LibDem in all elections. The Scotland map was turned yellow. Even Ruth Davidson’s own constituency voted SNP.
Last night I watched the BBC news from London in which they sought views from the “regions” of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sarah Smith redefined the whole EU election from a Scottish standpoint. No longer should we see it in the context chosen for us by Ruth Davidson. The actual result would not serve the Unionist agenda at all. Instead, she chose to tell BBC viewers that the election had been about Nicola Sturgeon asking voters to “lend” her their votes on this occasion to stop Brexit. In her opinion, the outcome had no significance for the independence cause.
With our experience of Question Time, Call Kaye, BBC News etc we need to realise that the BBC is consciously in campaign mode against a future independence referendum.They have taken the gloves off long ago. It is time the Scottish people did likewise.
Alasdair Forbes
Farr, Inverness-shire
INTERESTING, well not really, that Ruth Davidson claims that her party’s defeat was for not delivering Brexit.
I would have thought it was more a case of her supporters realising that she and her party seniors down south completely ignored Scotland’s preference in the EU referendum, and Scotland’s interests following it, by over-ruling or completely ignoring all pleas and statements made by SNP MPs in subsequent debates and discussions.
The chicken has come home to roost for such blatant behaviour and I doubt if it will fly away soon.
Tom Gray
Braco
DELIGHTED by the landslide vote for the SNP in the EU election. As for the situation elsewhere in the UK, it’s clear that if you add together the votes for all the parties that stood on a Remain manifesto they are equal in number to those for the Brexit party. It’s clear this is not a landslide in favour of Brexit south of the Border. Not at all.
SC
Aberdeen
PROBABLY like many others I take it for granted that in this day of digital presentations the BBC’s graphics would be accurate. In fact it would almost certainly have taken active intervention to distort the graph.
The question remains, why were the BBC using a “rough visual indication”? Are they still correlating their election results information and calculations by pencil on paper before drawing and colouring their graphics by hand?
A spreadsheet could be used to automatically produce an accurate continually updated coloured graphic representation as information from the count is received. I can send the BBC a spreadsheet free of charge and copyright if the lack of one is their problem.
John Jamieson
South Queensferry
IT is noticeable that the high priest of Brexit, Mr Farage, no longer talks of “no deal Brexit” but the much more positively emotive “clean break Brexit”. I trust that all opponents of no deal will strenuously resist this latest stratagem of the Brexiteers.
M Murray
East Kilbride
SOMETHING very dangerous and concerning has happened to politics in the UK. A man who a few months ago had no political party and presently has no coherent policies on any of the myriad complicated issues facing us at the moment has, by relentless promotion by elements of the media, broadcast and printed, just won a national election in England and Wales. This means the shadowy establishment which owns or runs most of the media has in fact taken control of our “democracy”. This is deeply worrying.
It is a credit to the sensible Scots however that the control agenda is not working in Scotland.
David McEwan Hill
Sandbank, Argyll
NEVER cast a cloot till May is oot. Johnson, Gove, Hunt, McVey, Leadsom, Raab to name but a few. Never mind the EU shambles for a few months because a scramble is on for the silver, or what’s left of it. Only this lot could make Yes Minister look like normal government and Francis Urquhart a desirable Prime Minister. I think the longjohns will be the order of the day for a while yet.
Murray Forbes
Milngavie
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