Douglas Ross being ousted as Scottish Tory leader is an inevitable formality

Even the Scottish Tory MSPs called for Boris to resign until they became spineless, toothless, and lost their nerve. They think it is all over but they are in for a shock, and if the Gray report does not get put on the same dusty shelf as the Russia Report we may soon know the complete lying truth about Boris and his government and all the wannabes who have been sent out to lie for him, thereby making themselves culpable.

Never mind, we now have the Tory Party political broadcast and with them we can have foodbanks specially set up by their aspiring candidate. They must have had a long search to find a teenager to front their broadcast since most of their cohort is pensionable, but how very kind of them – maybe we would be more grateful if they had not caused them in the first place.

Winifred McCartney

Paisley

PERHAPS the Tory leaflets could have been like this?

Vote to have your democratic wishes completely ignored

Vote to be dragged out of Europe against your will

Vote to see our businesses absolutely ruined by a Brexit we never voted for

Vote for foodbanks

Vote to have another country’s nuclear weapons stored at the bottom of your children’s beds

Vote for one of the worst pensions in Europe

Vote for the highest taxes on earth when all stealth taxes are factored in

Vote for a crooked banking system

Vote for a crooked postal service that jails its partners

Vote to watch your country slowly die from wanton neglect whilst our oil enriches our neighbours

Vote so your children and grandchildren never benefit from your country’s own huge resources

Vote to have your industry absolutely decimated by Thatcher’s love childs

Vote subservience

Vote to ensure your own country never prospers

Vote to ensure Scotland is not allowed to solve its own drug problems

Vote to not be allowed our own media broadcaster

Vote to pay to be brainwashed 24/7 by a foreign state broadcaster

Vote to have our politicians abused in a foreign parliament

Vote to ensure we have to pay for prescriptions

Vote to ensure there are no free university places

Vote to stop free childcare

Vote to ensure NHS staff have to pay to park at work

Vote for eternally failing, downright lying, foreign, political parties

Vote for pathological liars

Vote for Better Together

Vote to ensure Scotland’s many great achievements are ignored in the media

Vote to ensure your own country is constantly attacked by “Scots” working for foreign political parties

Vote to be an Anti-Scot

Iain K

Dunoon

LINKING the Covid pandemic to the National Insurance contributions rise is another Boris Johnson lie aided and abetted by the cabal of Scottish Tories!

Johnson on becoming PM announced he had a plan for health and social care. Since this was before the pandemic the plan must have been costed, so where was the money coming from then?

Three years later and his plan was not costed and therefore he lied about the so-called plan! The NI contributions U-turn breaks yet another manifesto promise (the triple lock being another), so it is not needed, is therefore not reasonable, and is therefore yet another lie.

So this entire fiasco is about Johnson lying repeatedly, aided and abetted by the Scottish Tories!

Robert Doig

Bo’ness

I WISH Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross a quick recovery from illness following his recent positive test for Covid.

Mr Ross is currently urging voters in the forthcoming local elections in his usual militant way to “knock the Nats down to size” and apparently believes, in a blaze of self-delusion, that his party can make inroads in some of Scotland’s most powerful council areas.

Optimistic and aggressive rhetoric is, of course, part of a party leader’s remit, particularly when trying to stir voters from their apathy regarding local elections. However, Mr Ross’ vigorous diatribe against the SNP smacks of genuine desperation and sounds like his own political valedictory address to his party and his masters in Westminster.

The Scottish Conservative leader is seen as a somewhat peripheral and superficial political presence by his opponents and indeed, by many of his own side, but even he must now realise that the results of these elections may well seal his own political fate and that of his isolated Scottish Tory faction.

He and his Scottish party colleagues evidently have no faith or trust in their Prime Minister and now know that their importance to him and the Conservatives south of the border is practically non- existent. Mr Ross and, by association, his Scottish colleagues, have been ridiculed, marginalised and patronised by London-centric politicians and Tory faithful who view them and Scotland with disdain. Yet he must strive to keep up appearances by parroting empty sound bites and professing fealty to his amoral leader and the democratic sham that is Westminster in the vain hope that Scottish voters have been stuck in a cave on Mars for the last three years.

Luckily for him, like so many Scottish Tory leaders, Mr Ross is a person utterly lacking in dynamism, imagination or real perception and his political demise will doubtless be viewed with an inevitable formality by him and his dullard Cabinet colleagues. Soon he will be replaced by another intellectually challenged, tedious and pedestrian apparatchik like the boorish Stephen Kerr or the shallow Jamie Greene. And so it will continue ad nauseam until Scottish Tories, like the rest of us, will finally beg for the blessed relief of independence.

Owen Kelly

Stirling

SO there you have it in the UK Energy White Paper: hydrocarbons aside, the UK will have more nuclear, wind and solar powering it to a bright green energy independent future. Other than a “we will consider the role...”, not a mention of predictable tidal stream power generation, which deployed in hand with energy storage and demand management holds the potential to provide an uninterruptable source of power.

Tidal stream energy generators would be relatively cheap, quick to build, simple to operate compared with nuclear and not burdened by radiation safety and waste disposal issues associated with operating nuclear reactors. And it’s a no brainer when it comes to comparing energy sources; nuclear requiring, a far from green, complex and energy-intensive process from mining and refining all the way through to reactor fuel fabrication, whereas with tidal stream it’s simply a matter of siting generators in the right place.

There’s also the matter of supply security related to the size of generating units. When a nuclear generating unit comes off-grid there’s an immediate loss of hundreds if not thousands of megawatts. Tidal stream, and for that matter wind generators are relatively small so power loss from the drop out of one or two units is hardly noticeable.

I could go on but the question in my mind is simply this. Why was tidal stream not given a place in the UK future energy strategy?

Is it because the Westminster lot do not want Scotland to hold an even stronger hand on energy, especially when the likes of tidal power with storage could make this country truly energy independent?

There would be no need to import power from south of the border to keep the lights on when the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine. The UK Government has driven tidal into the slow lane but I can foresee the time coming when Scotland will become a net power exporter 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That’s another argument for staying in the Union knocked on the head.

Bill Bryan

Inverness

WHEN Charles Edward Stewart unfurled his Royal Banner at Glenfinnan, he immediately declared the annulment of the already unpopular Union with England. This he had proclaimed throughout the land, he being our legitimate Royal prince, and legitimate heir to the Scottish throne.

This was also the reason so many Scots of all shapes and sizes, trades and professions, Doctors, lawyers, butchers, bakers and candlestick makers, flocked to his banner. Leaving some frightened fellow Scots, to remain at home, fearties aye yet wishing them every success.

The Hanoverian propaganda then, and Unionist lies of today, would have you believe that there was a religion issue involved, which can immediately be dismissed, and proven, by the fact that second in command, General Murray was protestant, and there were four different Chaplins on the Jacobite side to cover all the denominations, so religion was not an issue. However the English take over, disguised as a Union WAS – an annexation in a grand scale.

Freedom and the return of Scotland’s sovereignty was the same cause then, as it is today. Prince Charles himself changed his religion twice during his lifetime, and did this to suit political expediency, rather than any deep religious conviction.

His immediate success was in winning back Scotland, and replacing the Union rag, with the pure and well-loved Saltire, the flag of St Andrew – the proper flag of the people of Scotland. This emblem of freedom and independence. It flies at the Scottish Parliament, but unfortunately so does the butcher's apron, the Union Jack, emblem of the Hanovarian invasion, whose troops tore down our national flag and replaced it with their Mickey Mouse emblem of occupation. Scotland was simply annexed and illegally taken back into the Union at bayonet point.

So as far as the people and soldiers of the Scottish side were concerned, the Union had, been annulled by our official and Royal head of state. We don’t need a referendum to leave a Union which has already been cancelled. We have also won at the ballet box, so all that remains is a declaration of independence.

Would mighty England do like Mr Putin and invade a sovereign independent state. They can but try, but should remember, that every English king who tried, was sent home to think again.

Iain Ramsay

Greenock