JACKSON Carlaw’s eventual statement – after many hours of waiting and no doubt revision from Tory HQ in London – merely highlights how useless both he and the so-called “Scottish” Tories are. He led the attack on the former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland for breaking the lockdown guidance but now is silent on the Prime Minister’s chief aide doing likewise.
Well, actually Dominic Cummings did far worse. It’s clear Cummings doesn’t give a damn about what the public think – and from his press briefing (one of the few he’s given) neither does the Prime Minister.
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Carlaw states that the Prime Minister is doing excellent work leading the country out of the lockdown – does he think 60,000 deaths is excellent? Carlaw has lost the plot – he’s another political puppet merely repeating the phrases given to him by Tory HQ in London. Carlaw’s praise of Johnson and his hypocrisy over Cummings is astounding – no-one should take him seriously (if indeed they ever did).
It’s also becoming clearer every day that we have a puppet Prime Minister doing the bidding of some unseen hierarchy who are deciding what happens in the UK. This is not a democracy – it’s a dictatorship. I feel sorry for the people of England who were fooled into voting for this balloon, but in Scotland we have a way out. We must use the example of Johnson and Cummings to show that no UK Government can ever be trusted again.
Scotland is big enough, rich enough and smart enough to go it alone – and after all of the failures from Johnson and co, Scotland has had enough of being part of this sham union of nations. The sooner we regain our independence the better.
Cllr Kenny MacLaren
Paisley
SO Dominic Cummings is too important to resign or be sacked. I quite understand. How on earth could Boris even run a booze-up in a brewery without his brain?
P Davidson
Falkirk
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