EIGHT weeks of televised TV debates and incessant Conservative and Unionist Party propaganda could not convince almost 20% of those eligible to vote in the leadership contest that either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak merited a vote.
Of those who did vote, only 57% (overall 47%) voted for the former candidate, who was not the preferred candidate of the majority of her own MPs (who presumably have a greater insight to her true abilities and actual performance both as an MP and in government).
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Liz Truss, the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, appears even less popular among Tory MSPs than Boris Johnson, but even those MPs/MSPs representing a party that the people of Scotland have not voted to represent them in many decades will evidently, according to her own briefings, be denied the opportunity to seriously influence Scotland’s constitutional future by “Supreme Leader Truss”.
Is this really the “best of British” democracy?
Stan Grodynski
Longniddry, East Lothian
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