SO Tory Caligula Boris Johnson is once again revving up his clown car to bring his unfunny circus to Scotland. Presumably he will bring an emergency fridge to hide in should he encounter any of the natives. The only people looking forward to the visit are the credulous extreme Unionists. They pollute the discourse on independence with foul vileness. They mistake their echo chamber on social media with Scotland as a whole. Johnson’s trip is a clear violation of the Covid-19 restrictions on cross-border travel. Coming north to tell lies, make threats and a fool of yourself is not in within the rules.
ALAN Crocket (Letters, January 21) in his response to my letter makes my case stronger, not weaker. In 2016 the SNP won 59 constituency seats, up six from 2011, but dropped from 16 to four on the list. Is it realistic to make all planning based on such a large increase in constituency seats won? I have had too many disappointments over my 29-year membership of the SNP to allow this to happen. The small drop between constituency and list in 2016 was only 2% but this was enough to slash the number of list seats, so we can’t take any chances in this key election. The 2011 overall majority which gave us the 2014 referendum required the 16 list seats.
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Ruth Davidson won Edinburgh Central in 2016 at Holyrood by a smaller majority than the number of votes the Greens won ALAN Crocket (Sunday National, January 17) is wrong in his one-sided call for the SNP to stand down on the list in favour of the Greens and others. The first fatal flaw is there is no guarantee that we will win as many as 70 seats out of 73. This is, I sadly fear, over-optimistic, especially as the Greens have confirmed they will be standing candidates in the constituencies. Has he forgotten that in 2015 David Mundell retained his Westminster seat over the SNP by a smaller majority than the number of votes the Green candidate won?