THE take it or leave drafty Brexit plan is a tome of several hundred pages. We are, presumably, supposed to be impressed.

I confess I have not read it as my local library and bookshop haven’t yet received a copy. However, we are assured by the Prime Minister that it will be good for the whole of the UK, including Scotland. Obviously an afterthought there. What I have been trying to understand is, how is it good for the whole of the UK, including Scotland? So far, no-one seems to know the answer.

Northern Ireland appears to be the elephant in the room now because the drafty plan allows it to continue more or less as if nothing has been happening over the last two years or so, in order to protect its Good Friday Agreement. That is more important in my book, if only because we do not have a big enough army to send over there again, just in case. Also, a majority of the population voted for remaining in the EU anyway.

My own country did likewise, with 62% of the population voting Remain. But Mrs May does not recognise that factor. In fact she does not recognise Scotland, or so it has come to pass. Several Tory MPs, whilst forming several factional groups, opine individually that Brexit is all things to different people and believe that their clandestine group hold the key to a true Brexit.

The Labour party has no opinion from what I can gather except to gain a new General Election, believing it is ready to lead the UK along a yellow brick road to glory. Little does it realise the Tories are already on the yellow brick road but not to any glory, instead to the white cliffs of Dover and beyond.

Is there anyone with even an inclination of suspicion of the drafty Brexit plan and its content? Is there anyone with a clue as to how the UK will be seriously better off come next Fool’s Day?

Alan Magnus-Bennett
Fife

THE current chaos of attitudes expressed over the last few weeks about membership of the EU only emphasises the artificial and oppressive nature and history of the UK. Britain’s contempt for colonies such as Ireland or Carribbean island countries has come to the fore when the government thinks it can belittle all the other countries that make up the EU.

This only emphasises the different political tasks with which the Brexit referendum confused us all.

So the EU brings together all the main neo-liberal governments who best expressed their contempt for the working population when they punished the Greek people for daring to democratically elect a government that might have rejected their austerity policy. However, the British (manipulated) referendum will allow our local neo-liberals to attack our working poor just the same as in Trump’s USA!

It is also a poor argument to use for convincing people to support Scotland’s right to self-determination. Better to put forward the prize of a very different (socialist?) independent Scotland that will also have to fight the neo-liberal bullies in Edinburgh, London or Brussels.

Norman Lockhart
Innerleithen

CAT Boyd gets space in The National to have yet another attack on a People’s Vote, using a certain section of its supporters as a stick with which to beat it (Campain for People’s Vote is not about the people, November 20). I too see as toxic those same people she names, but that does not mean I view a People’s Vote a bad thing.

Neither do 90% of Labour party members, the SNP, Green Party, the LibDems, the Women’s Equality Party and Mumsnet. Neither do the majority of members of Unite, Unison, the GMB, Prospect, steelworkers and teachers. Neither do the 90% of under-25s who want us to stay in the EU.

Brexit is a class issue and once again the “hardish” left trying to maintain their lefty credentials are letting down the one class who will suffer the most under any kind of Brexit. I could not help thinking Cat Boyd’s article would not have looked out of place in The Daily Mail or Telegraph.

Tony Martin
Gullane

WATCHING the news and listening to the radio, dominated by Brexit for the last two years, I now think we are living in pantomime land. We have Tories to the right(!) of us, Tories to the left – saying one thing, doing another, all the time persuading England that they are all things to all people.

In reality the only people these Tory politicians are interested in are themselves. Labour aren’t even on the stage as bystanders.

The Tory party have not changed since Westminster was inaugurated. They will do anything and everything to stay in power – and to keep us, the voters, where they want us. In this Brexit pantomime Boris (the Buffoon) is a major character, and so is Jacob Rees-Mogg (the wicked Baron).

Unfortunately there are more than three ugly sisters. I’ll leave you to work out who the wicked step-mother is! The performance though is anything but funny – this pantomime is taking up the airwaves, our conversations, our bad dreams and putting our country – Scotland – further and further into the political background.

Scotland has to leave the theatre and let England enjoy its own production.

Moira Cochrane
Edinburgh

SO Mr Mundelll, that paragon of integrity, believes “a no deal outcome would be catastrophic for Scotland”. The truth is that he simply believes what he is told to believe. If he really wants to understand Scotland’s greatest catastrophe, he need only look in the mirror.

Joe Cowan
Balmedie