IN your letters page on Friday Alex Orr and Richard Low demonstrate why you can never pay any attention to leftie/nationalist types, and their diatribes.

Mr Orr shows a complete lack of knowledge about coronavirus, as those who will suffer the most are not the young or generally speaking the low paid, but elderly men with existing health conditions. Indeed, 91% of all deaths to date have been of mainly elderly people with existing health conditions. The young and healthy tend not to be as badly affected. The virus tends to attack these types irrespective of incomes or whether they have a garden or not.

Mr Low then demonstrates his complete lack of knowledge about the workings of the NHS in the UK. The NHS is devolved in Scotland and has been for 21 years – under the authority of Labour for eight years and the SNP for 13 years. If the NHS in Scotland does not have the proper funding or equipment, these faults lie entirely with the SNP, not the Conservatives. Indeed, the UK Conservative government allocated a further £680 million to the SNP in March under the Barnett formula to assist with extra NHS spending.

As for Captain Tom Moore, I doubt if he would ever complain or criticise people who are doing their best in an unprecedented once-in-a-lifetime situation. He just soldiers on regardless.

The two men demonstrate, yet again, what a jaundiced and completely wrong view they have on certain matters, no doubt driven by their leftie/nationalist zealotry.

John Rankin

FOLLOWING his five-star treatment at St Thomas’ Hospital in London for the Coronavirus, Boris Johnson should have praised the NHS in general for saving his life, and not just singling out the two nurses who cared for him.

It is assumed that during Boris’s priority treatment, the two nurses would have had unlimited access to protective clothing and masks etc. In contrast, due to lack of funding and cuts by Boris, and successive Conservative governments, frontline nurses and medical staff have been denied the same access. The lack of funding in my opinion has contributed to deaths among hospital medical staffs across the country. It is now time for Boris and his government to seriously address their conscience, as they have proven once again that the NHS is not safe in their hands.

R Downes

MATT Hancock (left) couldn’t even tell the truth on his derogatory new badge ... it should have read: “Couldnae Care”.

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