WHILE Thursday’s election result was unexpected in scale, perhaps it was not quite so unexpected in its outcome.

Voters who felt strongly about Brexit took the opportunity to make their feelings clear. Voters in Scotland, who normally would be cautious about voting SNP saw them as their best chance to build a middle ground and possibly influence a hung parliament in

the way the DUP did with Teresa May.

The result is the result and I am sure SNP in Scotland will use it intelligently and reflectively.

Boris Johnston on the Today programme this morning was certainly acknowledging the need to reunite the nation and provide a “one Nation conservative” government and one can only hope that the hawks in the ERG let him do so.

What I find worrying is that Labour on the same programme were blaming the collapse in their vote totally on Brexit, with no acknowledgement that some of their policies or the personalities of key figures contributed to their failure.

Unfortunately we are moving ever closer to the American model of democracy where personality seems to matter more than substance.

Unless Labour can get the personalities and the substance right, I fear they will be left out in the cold for a very long time.

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JUST as in 1983, 1987 and 1992, the English nationalists have vote overwhelmingly to elect a right wing Tory Government for the next five years.

This is worse, as they have elected a man who is a proven liar and runs away from any scrutiny or serious debate.

Scotland once again has voted in complete contradiction to this unhealthy trend.

Are we once again going to be meek and mild, shrug our shoulders and say ‘what can you do?’ or bite the the bullet and accept that we have totally different aspirations from our neighbours south of the border and demand the right to finally run our own affairs?

I say go for the latter for the sake of future generations.

If we don’t, they will never forgive us.

AM

Glasgow

WOW, amazing weight loss (Glasgow grandad sheds eight stone in a year , Friday).

Well done and keep it up.

Sam T

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WHY just Partick for the knife crackdown (Transport cops to set up metal detecting knife arch in Partick tonight, ET online, Friday)?

Get them up on all main stations, and get the sniffer dogs out too.

Derek Campbell

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WELL done to the Rangers’ board for this news (Steven Gerrard signs contract extension at Rangers, ET online, Friday), and thank you Steven for making us believe again.

Let’s settle down now

and move forward confidently.

Ralph Ballintyne

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I KNOW from personal experience just how devastating fires can be (Friends set up fundraiser to man who lost everything in Glasgow fire, Friday) and my heart goes out to this chap but I would like to think he has adequate insurance in place to cover the loss of material possessions which have undoubtedly lost in the fire.

It looked to me to be more than one property ravaged by the fire, so these home owners will no doubt be in the same position as this guy – if that’s the case, are there multiple crowdfunders active at the moment?

JP B2019

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