FOR those Remainers like myself who have watched the debate come to this excruciating point, John Chisholm’s analysis makes hopeful reading that we will miss out on the Armageddon of a no deal (Poll study shows surge for Remain, February 17). He infers that the media may be responsible for the marginalisation of arguments to Remain by being a “a classic circus”, or that it will be “as much about the silence” of Remainers.

I suggest our ability to change the result is entirely down to the first-past-the-post (FPTP) parliamentary system of Westminster and its utterly archaic systems of voting and sheer time-wasting.

In Scotland, we have three proportional representation votes and one FPTP in a General Election. The FPTP method is a busted flush, and until we change this we will end up every time with the authoritarian rule of a dictatorship currently being espoused by Mrs May.

So, Mr Chisholm, I hope my speaking up will help the cause of Remain even by a teeny weeny fraction – how else am I to do it?

Alex Thomson
Coldstream