What is your take on our upcoming war with Spain? – Kirsty, Greenock IN a true sign of the mad times we live in, the UK is threatening conflict with a fellow Nato member state. Amazingly, we find ourselves trapped in a Union that wants to cripple Spain with its low-budget navy. Once again, Britain is nostalgic for war. At this stage, it genuinely feels like the elder Brexit generation are determined to kill their offspring. Do they call them “baby boomers” because they keep sending their children to foreign battlefields?

The first problem with this whole debacle is that you don’t open negotiations with war. You can’t dial back from that threat. Once you’ve put the gun on the table, it’s going to be fired. If Britain backs down from this menacing stance, it looks weak. If it escalates the fight, it looks psychotic. Warfare should be your last resort. The Tories, however, have made it their first move.

The press reaction to this story has been truly bewildering. This week, The Sun appeared to be offering both discount holidays to, and war with, Spain. Moreover, the headlines it deployed regarding Gibraltar were almost cartoonish in their stupidity. If I had a time machine, and I went back to 2014, and showed their covers regarding this impending conflict, most would surely believe it was parody. Nonetheless, some No voters must now have switched from shouting “It’ll be chaos if we vote to leave the UK!” to “If only we’d voted to leave the UK! We’d still be in the EU and not at war with Spain!”

The EU has kept the peace in Europe for 60 years. How anyone could be “proud to be British” from threatening that peace is beyond me. We’re being governed by maniacs. After all the talk of the Spanish causing problems for Scotland’s EU entry, it has in fact turned out to be the Spanish who are a problem for the UK’s EU exit. Many Brexiters ask the question “What the hell does the EU need an army for?” Well, it appears evident to me that it needs one to protect itself from war obsessed crooks in Britain.

What do you think Theresa May meant when she said “For too long the attitude in Whitehall has been to devolve and forget”? – @ailsatny

IT seems to me that Brexit is becoming less and less about any sort of rational stand against unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, and instead an excuse for the British establishment to implement fascist control over the UK.

Evident by her actions, Theresa May is rejecting democracy. Nicola Sturgeon’s democratic mandate for a second Scottish independence referendum has been at best ignored, and at worst stomped out as an inconvenient anomaly in the Tory masterplan.

This is “taking back control” in the extreme.

It is verging on a dictatorship. It wouldn’t at all surprise me if Theresa May opts to shut down all the devolved parliaments in the UK, and simply centralize power to Westminster.

As a matter of fact, David Davis recently announced that the “Great Repeal Bill” will include powers for the UK Government to unilaterally alter devolution settlements. Moreover, this move would not require a legislative consent motion. It seems incomprehensible that a western government in the 21st century could have this level of contempt for democracy, but when you consider that our sitting Prime Minister believes hosting a private dinner for the editor of the Daily Mail to be a necessary act, it’s not much of a stretch to imagine what else she’s capable of.

Theresa May, after all, was just this week buddying up to a Saudi Arabian regime that publicly beheads people, and defending slashing benefits for children who have lost a parent.

This is not an individual we should trust to have respect, decency or fairness as part of her genetic makeup. She is fully capable of ending the Scottish Parliament

When are Scottish Labour officially dead? – @RossFerns1

CONTRARY to popular belief, Scottish Labour aren’t dead – they just smell funny. While their baffling politics and musky odour would give many people reason to believe that the Last Rites must be due soon, it is important to remember that you cannot kill what doesn’t die. In one sense, you must respect Kezia Dugdale. Even with most Scottish voters against her, Kezia remains defiant, insisting that independence is not the way forward. Meanwhile, her Westminster overlords continue to make the Tories seem almost competent with a cycle of unbelievably strange behavior.

Scottish Labour showed their true colours during the run-up to the independence referendum in 2014. Now, despite over-whelming evidence of broken promises and lies from the Unionist camp, they seem content to recycle the same old nonsense second time around, and hope that no-one notices. Presently, there is talk that “Better Together” will be rebranded as “New Direction”. There are three problems with this: 1, They aren’t offering anything new; 2, They aren’t offering a direction; 3, It sounds like “Nude Erection”. This is a good summary of Scottish Labour: unoriginal, hopeless and unintentionally hilarious.