MESSRS blinkered, bigoted and servile are apparently all alive and they are all attempting to divert our attention away from the elite’s most public and incredibly painful meltdown.

Now this diversionary tactic conducted by them may have stood a chance of working a few decades back but not now, for you see far to much information is in the public domain for the actions and words of the cap-doffing, forelock-tugging, GB News-watching drones to have any effect.

We no longer stand rigidly to attention as the sun sets over the South China Sea, the African savannah or the rainforest of Central America. We have all moved on from those times – well, when I say “we”, I mean the majority have.

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I now firmly suspect that is what is sticking in the throat of the imperial Unionist – we no longer show unquestioned loyalty to someone simply because that person “aced it” in the lottery of birth. We no longer aspire to be like them because when all is said and done they are a rather unsavoury lot, and because of that my respect is much more likely to be given to those that achieve through hard bloody work.

Now that will obviously annoy the less cerebral users on social media, but there it is: the time for unquestioning loyalty to a group that has never shown the slightest bit of loyalty in return is long gone. I will remind them that it is the year 2020 – not 1420, 1520 or some such year as that – and the lottery of birth in no way assures those at the upper end of our class-ridden system are of quality. The untruthful, misleading, self-serving wreck of a Prime Minister being the perfect example of that.

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Yes, headmaster of Eton: all the fees ever paid, all the exams ever taken and all the boys that have gone before are now represented by Johnson. Look, you class-defined fools, at just what your kind have produced as the very definition of your type!

We have witnessed him yet again on a TV interview. He is wearing a face mask – unusual! He is not telling the truth – not so unusual! It is little wonder that he and the system he so completely endorses find themselves so openly ridiculed, and with that ridicule coming quite rightly from every point on the compass, and by all manner of people.

The perfect storm of Brexit, pandemic and independence campaigns would have sorely tested even the very best of leaders, but alas we had Johnson and in him we have found not the leopard nor the lion but rather the whimpering manboy. The very last ember of imperial light – one soon to fade as first one country then the others break out from the stagnation of UKplc.

Cliff Purvis
Veterans for Scottish Independence 2.0

I HAVE to congratulate John Edgar (Letters, Jan 18) on his analysis and forensic disassembly of Gordon Brown and his blatantly hypocritical approach to Scottish politics. This so-called giant of the Labour movement, when he had any power, sold off our gold reserves and allowed “light touch” regulation of the stock market. If he ever had any vision, beyond dumping Blair and becoming PM, then he kept it well hidden. This “son of the manse” should hang his head in shame.

Barry Stewart
Blantyre

A BRILLIANT piece of political writing from John Edgar. I can’t think of Broon without thinking of him as one of those covenanting ministers who purged the Scottish army of their best commanders because the commanders did not agree with their ideology, leading to the defeat at Dunbar.

Worse still, he reminds me of the same covenanting ministers who screamed for the slaughter of the prisoners after the battle of Philiphaugh.

Turner Donaldson
via thenational.scot