HEARING George Osborne’s pompous, arrogant, stupid comments urging Bungle Johnson to just deny Scotland a second referendum is really no surprise at all.

His reign as Chancellor was a complete disaster, with his draconian austerity measures, and showed the world yet again that these landed fools simply don’t see the working classes as human beings, as to them they are simply just the worker bees and Osborne, Bungle and chums can do whatever the hell they like with them as by jove, I bet none of them can even come out with decent Latin phrase!

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In all seriousness, Osborne is yet another perfect example of it all being one big chums club down in London, whether it be in Westminster, the civil service, the media or the banks. Like Boris, Osborne has failed his way from one position of authority to another.

The irony is, such is the lack of genuine intellect within this group of berks and their ilk, that if England were actually to allow people with genuine talent, drive, honesty and integrity to help run their lands, I bet there would never have been a call for Scottish independence in the first place. They are only fools to themselves with their short-term thinking and greedy, insular behaviour.

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Being a former Chancellor, Osborne knows only too well just how huge the proceeds are from Scotland’s huge resources, and just how much Westminster absolutely relies on them, so when the latest GERS figures are announced each year he must be laughing into his gin and tonic when he sees people up here actually believe a single word of it.

To be fair to them though, they did choose a very apt title for this massive deception of the Scottish nation in calling it GERS, as I take it this stands for Greedy Etonians’ Rigged Statistics?

Iain K
Dunoon

RUTH Davidson is clearly following the party line and fulfilling her job description “to create argy bargy in the parly”. Labour are the “sit on your hands and smirk” party while the LibDems might as well be cardboard cut-outs. Wouldn’t it be lovely and refreshing if someone at FMQs would stand up and say what we are all thinking? That arguing over statistics on an “England’s better than we are” mantra is highly inappropriate and downright disgraceful in the midst of a global pandemic. Patrick Harvie, there’s an idea for you.

MSPs running down their own country to score cheap political points. It’s appalling, it’s undignified and I cannot imagine it happening in any other country

Noirin Blackie
Haddington

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NEVER thought I’d ever say such a thing, but well done Richard Leonard for facing the truth, standing down from his leadership of his party and saving the world from further humiliating attempts to avoid any effort to offer support rather than needless criticism of the First Minister’s outstanding and tireless efforts to overcome the difficulties caused by the Covid virus.

How respectable it would be if leaders Davidson and Rennie would follow his lead and think again.

Tom Gray
Braco

I WIS watchin yon recruitment afficer fur independence, Baroness Britannia at the Speirin Time in oor Pailiament. She wiss fell busy streivin tae soun preisedential, nae doot tae convince her superiors doun in Lunnon that thay made ae muckle mistake nae makin her Prime Minister o England fan thay haed the chaunce. It appears she cannae dae this an lug intil fit’s bein sayed at the same time. She speirs ae mundane recreation o fit cams oot o the Tory papers, syne, after bein telt the aunser, she speirs the same quastion again. After bein retourded o the previous statement frae the First Meinister, she repeats its again! Accours, this is essential practice fur the Hous o Lairds, fan Baroness Britania taks herr seat happit in ae cast off coat frae a ratton, whaur it is essential tae be able tae sleep while sittin in the chaumber waeoot fartin.

George T Watt
Arbroath

IN the USA, Switzerland and many other countries, General Election ballots frequently have additional items to vote on, variously referred to as propositions, initiatives, plebiscites, etc. Is there anything that would prevent the addition of such a question to the ballot paper of the May Holyrood election? It could be simply a huge opinion poll on independence, a vote for a referendum on independence, a mandate to negotiate for independence, or any other variant. I am not an expert on this, but it might also avoid the need to have a referendum-type question scrutinised and delayed by the Electoral Commission.

Dr David White
Galashiels

FLIPPANCY is the new currency in the ideologically bankrupt Johnson administration. The ubiquitous quip is his weapon of choice, no doubt rehearsed in front of a mirror, while dismissing questions raised in the Commons with contempt.

He is like one half of a double act, a jousting jester with an imaginary missing half, only not nearly as funny or original. However there is a modicum of hope on the horizon he does appeared to be experiencing a drought of material for his weekly show. So he has to fall back on insulting the “Scottish Nationalist Party”, for which he will quite happily continue to apologise to the Speaker for his deliberate lapse in courtesy.

He must have wowed them at Oxford Union Debating Society, where his jolly japes, blithering banter and witless witticism would have brought the house down. And so every Wednesday we have to endure the ghastly jibes of the gibbering idiot, immune to the notion that he is not a music hall comic act but the Prime Minister of a fragmented union of nations.

Mike Herd
Highland