Readers of The National

AS an SNP member I never thought I would live to see the day that an embattled SNP First Minister would be writing begging letters to the Labour, Liberal, Green and even Tory party leaders, asking for support, while ignoring the potential support of a former SNP minister and former SNP leadership candidate. I hope whoever becomes the new First Minister does not repeat this exercise. I dread to think what would be the price of Tory support to prop up an SNP government for the next two years.

SO they are right then? We might not be too wee or too poor to be an independent country but at this point we are certainly looking too stupid.

MEMBERS of Global Justice Dundee met with many activists from various community groups last week, to discuss climate change policy and share our disgust that the Scottish Government has dropped its target to cut carbon emissions by 75% by 2030. To find out that, in addition, the government had ignored the earlier warning from the Climate Change Committee that such a target was unachievable is doubly worrying and makes us doubt whether the government’s target was ever sincere – or mere virtue signalling.

ON Saturday The National published a front-page splash headline proclaiming that Humza Yousaf had been “warned” to avoid supporting Ash Regan’s Referendum Bill. Read on and find that this “warning” comes from the proven liar Alistair Carmichael, who in 2015 avoided being ousted from his parliamentary seat only by a slim technicality having seen on election court uphold two charges relating to his lies.

THE fact that Patrick Harvie had already threatened to resign if Scottish Green Party members voted to end the Bute House Agreement told any objective observer that this outcome was a distinct possibility in the near future.

SIR Keir Starmer’s claim that Labour are “the true party

EVERYBODY wants unity. But they all want unity on their terms. Nobody is prepared to make the compromises that solidarity demands.

THE passage of the so-called Rwanda “safety” bill by the rancid corrupt Tory brigands is a watershed and an abomination. It will stand out as an ignominious event of degradation and political filth, and will live in infamy. It represents a rejection of morality, truth, and the rule of law.

NOW the Greens are talking about withdrawing from the Bute House Agreement (BHA), saying that red lines have been crossed. Let’s not forget that last autumn their co-leader Lorna Slater went on record saying that independence for Scotland would NOT be a red line in any future agreement with the Labour Party to form a Scottish Government.

THE Greens are taking the huff because the levels of Greenness promised as part of the Bute House Agreement are being reduced.