I do wish that people like Barry Lynch (‘Dodgy arguments’, April 22) would quote some actual figures instead of trotting out the same old inaccuracies propagated by the British media.

Fifty-two per cent of UK voters did not decide to leave the EU. Of the people who voted, 52 per cent voted to leave. As a percentage of the electorate that works out at close to 37 per cent, which is a figure not too difficult to work out with a basic grasp of arithmetic, although the correspondent did, unfortunately, mention uneducated morons, his quote not mine.

When speaking about lies, somebody should explain the big red bus with the sign in huge letters claiming that £350 million a week would be immediately available for the national health scheme.

As for politicians in Westminster, it is becoming very difficult to find a decent honest one who is not there to line his/her pockets. For example, Jacob Reese-Mogg refuses to discuss the £7 million he has made since the referendum. I find talk of voting for a return of English sovereignty ridiculous. Brexiteers are under the illusion that the rest of the world is desperate to enter into trade deals with the UK. That does not match up with the number of firms relocating head offices to Europe.

Scotland voted massively to remain in the EU but we are being dragged out regardless. England could, of course, go it alone but the last thing they want is Scottish independence. No more propping up their weak economy with North Sea oil as has conveniently been hidden for the last 40 years. (For proof, consult the McCrone report, which has only now been made available after being suppressed by all Westminster governments.)

In Scotland, we welcome people from abroad who wish to settle here and raise families and there is no way we want to see that made unnecessarily difficult or stopped by the fools who rave on about “taking our country back”.