INCREDIBLY, Penny Mordaunt reckons it took great courage for Liz Truss to sack the Chancellor that she chose, and who supported her own economically illiterate policies that have trashed the economy, sent interest and mortgage rates soaring, failed to hold energy producers to account for ripping off their customers, and necessitated the Bank of England spending £65 billion of our money.

Then, after all of this, she “bottled” attending parliament to answer questions, instead parachuting herself in as her new Chancellor dismantled everything our intellectually torpid PM stood for when the few Tories in her party put her in the highest office in the land.

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Her failure to answer questions directly is abject cowardice.

It beggars belief that Mordaunt could deliver her comic “eulogy” with such a straight face. Clearly her part in this shambles should commit her political ambitions to fuelling her party’s political funeral pyre along with the rest of the discredited Tories.

Failing to account for her actions directly at Westminster must surely be the last throw of the dice for this ham-fisted, incompetent politician posing as a PM. And those attempting to support our pimpernel PM should be ashamed of themselves for showing such scant regard for the electorate. At least she did turn up for the photo opportunity in her role as a narcissist mannequin anxious to appear on the front cover of Vogue.

Truss has to go. And her feeble henchmen need to go with her. We need a General Election without further ado. Because as things stand, the UK is a global laughing stock that would run away with the Edinburgh Fringe comedy award. Except voters are not laughing.

Jim Taylor
Edinburgh

ALL the mess we are in lately is not really Liz Truss’s fault. It’s the fault of those MPs and Tory members who voted for her to be Prime Minister in the first place. Those same people who chose Boris Johnson. Those same people who are still in place. This same situation could happen again, and again, and again...

Goodness me. As Eric Burton of The Animals once said, we gotta get out of this place if it’s the last thing we ever do. Come on Scotland, need need to wake up and see the light.

George McKnight
West Calder

I AM no royalist, but I think the very least Liz Truss could do (before she is ejected by the Tory party) is take a lesson on how to curtsy from Princess Anne. To see her entrance for her first meeting as PM with Charles (as King) was a “wonder”, and excruciating to behold!

Paul Gillon
Leven

THE PM’s actions over the last week have been nothing short of despicable. Sacking her Chancellor for obeying her instructions was an action that did not display courage, it displayed desperation, in an effort to save her premiership!

Here in Scotland, the new PM has not yet made contact with our First Minister, surely a major omission and a disregard of protocol. However, while the PM’s interest in Scotland has yet to be witnessed, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives Douglas Ross was heard demanding the Scottish Government adopt the now shredded mini-Budget presented on September 23, shredded by the PM’s new Chancellor!

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Thankfully, the Scottish Government gave this call the respect it deserved and binned it before the new Chancellor had a chance to do so. The country simply cannot afford any more Conservative economic policies from Westminster, it is bankrupting the country. So, a question for the Scottish Conservatives, are you going to continue to stand firm and support the Conservatives at Westminster ?

Catriona C Clark
Falkirk

WE must all welcome the First Minister’s statement, especially at this extraordinary time of utter chaos in the UK Government. However I would offer a wee word of warning. Leaving the currency issue in the hands of the the Bank of England (NB its brand is on the label) could quite quickly jeopardise the launch of our nation.

Like with all launches, there is only one chance.

Rather I would suggest we link our own pound to the euro from early doors. Creating our own fiat currency would be standing into danger, as we would leave ourselves exposed to the vicious vagaries of the City of London and their casino trading houses.

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Linking our currency to the value of the euro (as Denmark does) would provide some protection while making the transition to membership of the EU so much easier.

Retaining the Bank of England and its allies in the City reminds me of the words of Bill Clinton. He was proposing public spending when he got a warning from the Federal Reserve Bank. He complained by stating “You mean to tell me that the success of my programmes and my re-election hinges on the Federal Reserve Bank and a bunch of f***ing bond traders?”

We view the current debilitating outcomes of the power of the bond traders: we can’t place our national sovereignty into their greedy hands.

Thom Cross
Carluke

WE all agree that we need our own currency as soon as possible. However, many people conflate the concept of using Sterling with being tied to it. Nobody ever said we should be tied, but using it for international exchange alongside the other major trading currencies and during the transition is a matter of pragmatic common-sense. Counter arguments are merely Unionist diversionary points intent on sowing confusion and uncertainty.

Nick Cole
Meigle, Perthshire