NO-ONE should be surprised that the Tory Westminster government has treated Holyrood with disdain and contempt over the Brexit deal.

This Westminster government gave Saddam Hussein £330 million in subsidies after he gassed the Kurds. They have no morals. They can’t be argued or  reasoned with.

Scotland was treated with such disdain that it was not mentioned once in the draft agreement.

The Brexit “deal” that The Maybot has reached was always going to be a one-sided capitulation. The UK is weak and is isolated. The only concern for the UK Governmentis ensuring the continued passporting rights for financial services.

The reality of Tory incompetence is unfathomable.

A Northern Ireland Secretary who doesn’t understand Northern Ireland, an International Trade Secretary who doesn’t understand international trade, a Scottish Secretary who does nothing, a Brexit Secretary who doesn’t understand Brexit.

The headbangers of Brexit act as an echo-chamber for each other’s discredited beliefs. However nutty their views are, they will be affirmed by other members of the closed circle. Speaking and listening only to each other.

Arch-Brexiteer Ross Thomson is a case in point. He is a fantasist, a capering buffoon useful only for amusement. He fails to grasp the difference between reality and what he imagines to be true in his own mind.

Each time he opens his mouth he inadvertently expose the shallow fallacy of Brexit, dragging down those stupid enough to believe him.

The Tories will use Brexit to justify a further round of austerity. “There is no money” is repeated even as the fortunes of the super-rich swell to previously unthinkable dimensions. What is meant is “there is no money for you, because we want it all.” Plutocrats bear the same relationship to society as a cancerous tumour does to the human body.

Now is the time to call an independence referendum with the aim of keeping Scotland in the EU.

This current “managerial” approach by the SNP leadership to independence is bone-headed. The “wait and see what the Brexit deal is” tactic is simply a delaying strategy. The evidence shows Brexit will be a disaster. Why sit on the Titanic in a life-boat delaying leaving to see if the sinking will be reversed?

The idea that Scotland needs “permission” from the Imperial Westminster government is completely wrong. No Yes supporter should prefix their point with “if Westminster says no”. Right away you have lost. You implicitly give away sovereignty.

Alan Hinnrichs
Dundee

ALEX Orr is incorrect in his belief that the only way forward is a “People’s Vote” (Letters, November 16). The Tories are hard-nosed and they do not care.

While May does not have what the real Brexit loonies want, she does have an agreement.

It is not surprising that Gove is still within the government because he has not presented the absolutist approach of Boris Johnson or Jacob Rees-Mogg but he supports a creeping approach. He has said that once Brexit has been achieved then a future British government can re-negotiate the other parts of the deal.

I believe that he has sold this idea to May, so we face a creeping Brexit which may take some years, but the seeds are sown.

Peter McLaughlin
Edinburgh