HIS dishonesty that day should not be considered a day of retribution. And never Britain’s “Independence Day”. Before the years forget and Trump’s presidency wipes out the day before last in our memories, we must rewind to the day of Brexit. How clever Britain’s elite think they are. They used the suffering of millions to transform their own political agenda. Again, his dishonesty not ours. When he walked down the aisle at 10 Downing Street with his wife to renew, not his wedding vows, but the vow of his party – it became a constitutional victory. Nothing close to V-Day. Conservatives can never accept humility. Grace? Modesty? They know nothing about it. Memorandums they know too well, next to memorials of the dead. “I love this country,” he said.

Dear soldiers of World War I and II, if I gave you a choice, would you fight for the Britain we live in today? Everyone knows that a responsible PM would not have held the referendum.

Conservatives really had nothing to lose. A lot people assume this was not David Cameron’s intention and that he was a genuine Remainer. How disillusioned are we? He knew exactly what he was doing and he played it out. Westminster in their corruption are ambivalent. They spread it across our faces daily – continuously driving “us” mad.

PMQs is filled with immature and territorial language. Watching them is painful. Their behaviour is very disturbing. While outside everyone is suffering, children abused and neglected with not an inch of consideration of what they are going through now – in their own country!

Britain is socially ill. There are no medicines that can ease such daily suffering; they are left voiceless and blind. Breathless, depressed and depleted. Their jokes are more pivotal for the BBC and considered “Breaking news” than what is urgently happening around us.

We must rewind again. The working class had no choice that day. Brexit was the only choice against the power of multinationals that has almost obliterated our planet. Let us then not forget why Brexit happened. UK businesses displaced people for profit. It is a criminal and disgraceful social injustice – close to human trafficking.

Of course working class people were always going to vote Leave, because they have to live with the daily fragmentation, a distorted future and accept alienating sensations of living within a segregated society. They try to look ahead but the same words bounce back: “What future? There isn’t one.”

In consequence to the behaviour of multinationals Ukip will become the voice of not Scotland but the English working class and might succeed 20 years from now in having wiped out both Labour and Conservatives, but there is light at the of the tunnel in all of what is happening. It will make way for fresh, genuine and new parties, for example the Greens may win their first majority but they will hold the huge burden of healing society once again.

The road ahead will be bitter but that is because of generation after generation of unnecessary upheaval forced upon every citizen. David Cameron shall go down in Conservative history as a hero but only a hero to those he served. Meanwhile the working class are still awaiting justice.

In an ideal world Nicola Sturgeon would be Prime Minister; in an ideal world the SNP would form an English-SNP equivalent or joint party coalition in which to share and procreate their own policies – but we all know that will never happen.

The working class hold onto the future like no other class; the future is their only hope and prayer. The way they hold it is stronger than a thread of cotton. I will say it again: the pain in all of this is his dishonesty.

Patrick Phillips
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Tories care ... about making Scotland dependent


I DISAGREE with Stephen Kelly that the Tories have no interest in Scotland (The Tories simply don’t care about Scotland, The National, November 14), as I believe they care deeply.

However, I think that the Westminster Tories are determined to reduce Scotland to a state of complete economic dependency.

Their conduct in government regarding the Scottish economy since World War Two can draw no other realistic conclusion. No possible growth sector for Scotland will be permitted to flourish, as a result of this, without Westminster control.

The pervasive “broad shoulders” just shrug when their spokespeople explain just why a potential advantage for Scotland cannot be facilitated, whilst billions continues to be wasted on schemes that benefit certain other parts of the UK, and for which Scotland is required to make a contribution.

The Scottish Tories will never admit it, but their unrestrained glee at any bad economic news for Scotland belies any other ambition.

I hope an increasing number of Scots do continue to question Tooth Davidson and her disciples on why they are so content for their country to remain insignificant.

Name and address withheld

OVER decades, Scottish football’s problems, whether at domestic or international level, were greeted with howls of criticism directed at the top of the SFA hierarchy.

I recall administrators like Ernie Walker and Jim Farry being pilloried regularly by supporters and vituperative press scribes alike when things were going badly, on field or off. Strangely, over the last few years of footballing disasters, debacles and disappointments the men running the SFA, Regan and Doncaster, appear to be totally under the radar and impervious to critical scrutiny.

“It’s all the manager’s fault” goes the refrain, which ignores the fact that Scotland appears to be distinctly average at all footballing age levels.

Regan and Doncaster have also presided over the involvement of some teams from British football’s outer limits, in the Irn Bru challenge cup. This trophy, which was inaugurated to give lower league Scottish teams a realistic chance of silverware on their CV, could this season be won by a Welsh team whose home pitch is in England – or is it vice versa? However, if the New Saints win the trophy I fail to see how this would benefit lower league Scottish football, unless there is a longer term agenda at work that I just cannot understand.

Malcolm Cordell
Dundee

IT was with interest I read that a group of our hard-working Tories were off on a junket to visit illegally occupied land in the Syrian Golan Heights.

I wondered what Scottish parliamentarians were doing on a trip to visit land the state of Israel stole in breach of UN resolutions and international law and ethnically cleansed, are doing there. Then I remembered the Highland Clearances and the role that the Tory philosophy had in that bit of ethnic cleansing and it all became clear.

Robert Doig
Bo’ness

I TRAVELLED recently by train from Cardross, just four miles out of Helensburgh, to Galashiels, changing trains in Edinburgh. Leaving Cardross shortly after 10am, I was in Galashiels at around a quarter to one. As a life member of the Borders Rail Campaign, and having been active in giving out leaflets and chatting to people when the line reopened last year, I was thrilled that a journey cross country by rail could be so comfortable and convenient. But, oh dear! Waverley Station!

Abandon hope all ye who enter in. It’s like a game of snakes and ladders finding the right platform. Throw a dice – and it’s up and down lifts, escalators and stairs, across bridges and along endless platforms. But it can lead to little discoveries. I was practically giving up hope of reaching civilisation again when I came upon a stall selling Sardinian produce, cheeses, bread and other delicacies.The young woman running the stall was extremely charming and we discussed independence for Scotland (as one does). She was in favour, had been unable to vote in the referendum, but intended to vote Yes if there was another. Sardinia is also seeking independence, from Italy. Quite a serendipitous meeting and a reward for negotiating the maze – and the cheese was delicious!

Christine Lockhart
Hawick


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