SIR - Like most others in the farming community, I am fed up
to the back teeth of elections and referendums!
Normally, I wouldn’t consider not voting, but this time a low
turnout would surely send a message to all our politicians.
However, a more important reason for me avoiding the
polling station next week is that none of the mainstream
parties have given me any confidence that they are worthy of
my vote. Their leadership has been poor!
Theresa May: She might not have to worry about her
pension and health care in her dotage, but most of us do. She
might have backtracked a bit, but we all know now what her
thinking is.
It was all so unnecessary and highlighted a lack of political
nous, which is worrying for the crucial negotiations which lie
ahead.
If she fails to significantly enhance her majority, she will
indeed have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory!
Jeremy Corbyn: Hapless! We don’t know his real thoughts
on Brexit; we don’t know his real thoughts on Trident, in
particular, and defence, in general.
But we do know his real thoughts on terrorism and his
shameful lack of condemnation of atrocities committed in the
not too distant past is as politically naïve as it is reprehensible.
Nicola Sturgeon: A first class deputy First Minister who
has been unable to step up to the plate in the top job. Her
obsession with another quick independence vote has meant
her government has taken their eyes off the ball for the many
important decisions that have to be made. Alex Salmond
would surely have been cannier!
If she loses the next referendum, she will be remembered
as the SNP leader who killed off independence. Not a great
epitaph for a Nats leader!
And as for the others:
Lib Dems: I couldn’t possibly vote for them. In the past they
have prostituted themselves by going in to bed with Labour
(in Scotland), the Tories (at UK level), yet despite the Liberals
being the original party of home rule, they refuse to do a deal
with the SNP. A party of political opportunists.
UKIP: A party which has achieved what it set out to do and,
for better or worse, we now have Brexit. There is now no
longer any need for its existence!
The Greens: No doubt well meaning, if a bit misguided!
What will the sea eagles, bears, wolves, lynx etc eat when all
the farmed livestock is gone?
So, I think I will spend next Thursday in the pub and the
bookies, squandering some of my pension pot, before Theresa
May steals it all off me!
Alasdair Fletcher
Laigh Hatton, Bishopton,
Renfrewshire.
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