THERESA May’s panicked outburst against Tory Blair for advocating a People’s Vote, is symptomatic of the English problem not only in Scottish politics but in the British state and its “precious” union.

It seems that all political discussion and action south of the Tweed can now be likened to a hullabaloo! No-one is in charge, the PM opposes a second referendum yet her deputy Lidington in the Cabinet has been talking to certain Labour MPs about it.

The English and Welsh people voted for Brexit, not the British people. Theresa May keeps yelling this skewed mantra in defence of her current deal, which ironically had been signed off by the Cabinet before she desperately pulled the vote in the Commons last week!

But the Mayhem is increasing.

The Foreign Secretary is saying openly to the press that he would like a crack at being PM after Theresa May gets Brexit through in the next few months, and has added that a no deal would not be disastrous at all.

Here we have this precious Union now in turmoil. Its duopoly parties are fracturing at Westminster and its Cabinet is riven with open dissent and near mutiny simply because England – the predominant part of this incorporating Union, aka Greater England – is in terminal turmoil. Its fabled “broad shoulders” (according to Gordon Brown, the North Briton), are sagging!

Standing back, the whole edifice is in a sorry but self-inflicted state of paralysis and decline.

The signs are not promising. As the PM is becoming shriller day by day in her outbursts at home and abroad and claiming only she is a true patriot delivering what the “British” people voted for, she is resembling a deluded autocrat in the bunker who has lost touch with reality.

Louis XIV of France is supposed to have uttered “l’ État, c’est moi” (“I am the state”).

Theresa May is likely to discover that the people are not constructed in her image.

John Edgar
Kilmaurs

MRS May has yet again exposed her dislocated relationship with reality by accusing Tony Blair of undermining her Brexit (how I hate that non-word) process and branding his intervention as “an insult to the office he once held”.

I can’t imagine how it would be possible to undermine this process without the aid of an excavator, as it is already at ground zero. As regards Blair, she is right to say that he did insult his previous office, but this is unrelated to this bankrupt process. Rather it was for toadying to Bush and involving this country in an illegal war. Rightly or wrongly, he did win three consecutive elections, which she seems unlikely to emulate.

However, her government has achieved something that his governments never managed: it is the first in history to be found guilty of holding parliament in contempt. It may be helpful if Mrs May’s visits to this planet were restricted to a day-icket basis, whereby she is required to return each night to her own.

Joe Cowan
Balmedie

TWO years ago I said to anyone who would listen that the UK would not get a better EU deal than its existing one. This should have been a no-brainer, as the EU are only losing one customer, as it were, as opposed to the UK’s 27. I also said that the Conservatives

and their complicit friends in the press corp would, as a last resort, turn everything about face and blame it on the EU. Lo and behold that is exactly what is happening as we speak.

I also said that nobody wants to replace May as they wish her to be the sacrificial lamb hung out to dry after a failed deal or no deal, and then the backstabbers like Gove and Bozo can step in and claim it was nothing to do with them and it was all her fault!

Also, Labour do not want tasked with sorting out Brexit lest they get tarred with the same brush as May.

So what now? A second EU referendum, as the Tories might suspect, could and most likely would end up with three-quarters of the “precious” union (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) voting to remain and England voting to leave. What then? Does England think it’s rights supercede all those of the rest of the UK? Stupid question – of course it does!

Disturbing times are ahead, and this will only advance the case for independence in Scotland, but could also be a ticking timebomb for Wales and Ireland’s self-determination ideals.

Steve Cunningham
Aberdeen

PANTOMIME season is here to stay. Having decided that No Vote is better than a Bad Vote, our PM reverted to her default Baldrickian Cunning No Plan – a strategy that never fails to baffle EU ministers, the opposition, and even her own party.

MPs are uncertain whether to back a back-to-back backstop, back it as a stopgap, stop backing it pro tem or just back off and back out of it altogether. I’ve been very clear about this.

Not that any of it will make much difference to the Labour Party, whose distinguished record of non-participation in voting is designed to unnerve all MPs, without exception.

This latest in a series of West End Westminster panto-farces is set to run and run, mesmerising audiences with its nebulous charm. There’s frictionless fun (bordering on hysteria) for everyone.

Opening to rave reviews, in some cases raving (Daily Mail), the PM, in leading role, felt reluctantly obliged to participate in a post-performance interview with drama critic Laura K, broaching the question of stepping down from the part.

Not since 1865 – (“But apart from that, Mrs Lincoln – how did you like the play?) – has an awkward question been met with less enthusiasm.

James Stevenson
Auchterarder