Letter: No miracles

I would like to request that 999,999 other persons meet with me at Trafalgar Square as soon as possible so that we can demand an end to the present Westminster rulers of Great Britain.

I would also remind the 999,999 others to come prepared for what could likely be a minimum one-month stay in the square and, given our un-Egyptian weather, to bring adequate clothing and tentage. But just in case The Scotsman has any gullible readers, I am definitely not attending any such gathering myself because I regard myself as too realistic to entertain any hope that it would achieve anything.

It's like our eminent Scottish philosopher David Hume observed about miracles: they always seem to happen to someone else, somewhere else.

Ian Johnstone

Forman Drive

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire