LAST week Scotland’s prominent and long-serving FM entertained her fifth PM and heard promises of thousands of unspecified jobs for two so-called “green freeports”. Mr Sunak is the most articulate of a very poor bunch but failed miserably to answer pertinent questions, especially on independence; refusing to even discuss a possible democratic route to holding indyref2.
With public bodies virtually in revolt, including the NHS at breaking point and millions of people facing food and fuel poverty, the ever-smiling Rishi Sunak recently delivered a ludicrous speech, issuing promises that 13 years of Tory rule had already broken!
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The earnest but ineffectual Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer then followed with an even more ludicrous speech promising a bill giving sweeping devolved powers to communities across the UK, where people could control “their own future”. All this while still denying a referendum to Scotland!
It’s truly unbelievable. These out-of-touch, spineless Anglo-British leaders, in this broken Brexit Britain, bring to mind the words of John McEnroe: “you cannot be serious”!
Grant Frazer
Newtonmore
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