Ignoring people

SO, Kezia Dugdale and Scottish Labour are going to vote against triggering Article 50, (Evening Times February 7)but she does not support independence. What a clown.

She and Nicola Sturgeon are ignoring the will of the British people, a Britain that she and the Scottish people voted to remain part of.

She got her way, for Scotland to remain as part of the UK, so how can she justify her position? If I were Jeremy Corbyn I would “demote her”.

In the end, it comes down to one thing - “the United Kingdom voted to leave Europe” - so get on with it.

Jim Tees, by email

Homeless scandal

SHELTER Scotland has revealed that the time homeless families in Scotland spend in temporary accommodation has risen by almost a fifth in the last two years. (Evening Times February 6).

The time spent in temporary accommodation is now more than 20 weeks and children in particular are adversely affected.

There are nearly 6,000 children in temporary accommodation.

The SNP have been in charge of housing in Scotland for 10 years so they cannot blame Westminster for this terrible situation.

However this problem would be helped if the 63 SNP MSPs and the 56 SNPs MPs offered to take these unfortunate homeless families into their homes.

After all Nicola Sturgeon, in a challenge to Westminster, pledged to take a Syrian refugee family into her own home.

I wonder how they are settling in.

Clark Cross, by email

Return to 1980s

SHORTLY after the UK Leave vote in the referendum, Margaret Thatcher’s former Chancellor, Lord Nigel Lawson said: “Brexit gives us the opportunity … to finish the job that Margaret Thatcher started”

Whilst Scotland voted to Remain I’m sure most of those who did vote Leave in Scotland did not do so take Scotland back to the 1980s.

But with Theresa May and the Tories arrogantly suggesting they will just ignore Scotland’s position it looks like they are planning what Nigel Lawson suggests.

Theresa May has failed to rule out opening up the NHS to private US health providers as she desperately seeks a trade deal with Trump. She also suggests she might turn the UK into a tax haven by making massive tax cuts - cuts that could only come with cuts to public services. It is no longer simple Brexit but a Tory hard Brexit we all now face.

In May Scotland faces another election for Scotland’s councils. The only way to send them a message that people don’t want their version of Brexit is to turn out in numbers so that they cannot claim people want a return to the 1980s.

Bill Wallace, by email