LIKE your columnist Mike Dailly, I’ve given up worrying about President Trump, and President Biden cannot get sworn in quickly enough.

I despair at the mob mentality exhibited by Trump’s supporters. It’s one of the reasons I keep personal feelings off social media.

Where I disagree with Mr Dailly is his equating of President Trump and his supporters to Brexit. Superficially in his eyes there may be similarities, however no-one on either side of that emotional debate has demonstrated that the vote was rigged. There were untruths on both sides, put forwards by the more excitable followers of their respective sides.

He argued that racism was behind the Leave vote. Taking our jobs etc. There will doubtless be those who have such views, however I believed the reason the Leave side won (fairly and squarely) was that people saw that the EU was not living up to its initially noble intentions. We were told that we’d collapse financially if we left. We haven’t, we are a net importer. We were told we’d be isolated regarding Covid-19, yet the UK has immunised more than most in the EU.

The UK may have left the EU, but we are still European. Europe is a continental land mass, the EU is a supranational government. They are not mutually exclusive.

Graham Keddie

Via email

IT’S great to see the rollout of the vaccine gaining momentum but would it not make sense, in terms of speeding up the process, to utilise all the local GP surgeries, health centres and pharmacies, most of which are within reach of the population?

The sooner the vast majority have received the vaccine, the better for everyone, as this virus is wreaking havoc, with the UK once again leading the world in the wrong way in terms of death numbers.

MA

Glasgow

IN reply to Neil Lennon’s outburst in an attempt to justify Celtic’s Dubai trip, I would ask him to answer the following questions.

Did Celtic NEED to go or was it a case of they just wanted to go? Deep in his heart, seeing what was happening around him, did he honestly think it was the right thing to do to travel abroad in spite of advice not to do so? And of the players themselves, did they have a choice in the matter? And if they did then, sadly, common sense is very lacking at Parkhead.

FMK

East Kilbride