The other Tory split
Sir: With regard to the article by James Forsyth (‘The great Tory split’, 6 September), there is another dimension to the future of the Conservative party of which the Scottish independence vote is symbolic. The Conservative and Unionist party looks as though it lacks the leadership and the political skills to keep the Union together, certainly to make a convincing job of it. Whichever way the vote goes, it will not reflect well on the Conservative leadership. They are seen as part of an ‘out of touch’ Westminster elite which has neglected not just Scotland but much of England, becoming a party of the south-east rather than a genuinely national/UK wide party; what is more they do not seem even to mind that this is the case.
William Burke
Castor, Peterborough
They started it!
Sir: Pavel Stroilov’s commentary on Russia and Nato (‘Russia’s Nato myth’, 6 September) falls at the first hurdle. Any analysis of what is happening in Ukraine which fails to acknowledge that the confrontation started with the insurrection on the Maidan, leading to the overthrow of the democratically elected, if unlovely, government, at the very least encouraged by the West, is disingenuous.
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