READING Shona Craven's excellent article on Jeremy Corbyn's misjudgement (“Strategy backfires as Corbyn takes aim at the wrong target”, The Herald, April 26) one has to wonder who is more deluded, Mr Corbyn and his supporters or the hard-line right-wing advocates of Brexit.

To Mr Corbyn and his crew, it seems that tacitly supporting the Tories in tearing the UK away from Europe will somehow usher in the socialist Utopia of their dreams. To the hard-liners, the same fracture is expected to recreate the (supposed) glory days of British Empire, where the sun will always shine, Britain dictates the terms of trade and dealings will be in pounds, shillings and ounces.

What seems to have evaded the ken of either side is that the reality is likely to be the UK turning into a grubby, uncaring, offshore haven for the super-rich, ruled over by an apparently unstoppable ultra-conservative junta. We are only beginning to see the beginnings of this. Unless those who believe in Europe make an almighty effort to fight the worst idiocies of Brexit, I fear it will only get much worse. The forthcoming election is possibly our last chance.

Dr RM Morris,

Veslehaug, Polesburn, Methlick, Ellon.

INTERESTING to see Keith Howell using the comment “recent polling shows a majority of the people of Scotland do not want an independence referendum rerun”. We know it must be true as his Unionist compatriots have said it, again and again. In my imagination ear I hear a Dundee voice saying “Wha? Me?” – I am a Dundonian, and have never been opinion-polled.

At present people tend to be a bit fed up with politics, mainly because of this latest Tory General Election – any independence referendum is a couple of years away, and I hope to be still alive.

If Theresa May is holding this election to give her a stronger hand to play in EU negotiations she will find that the other 27 members of the EU have forgotten all about the UK.

We can also now add to the political lexicon of “once in a generation” the additional phrase “the time is not now”- politics is dynamic, and “circumstances alter cases” as one of my old Dundonian aunts used to say.

Jim Lynch,

42 Corstorphine Hill Crescent, Edinburgh.

I DO not dispute GR Weir's comment "that 62 per cent of Scots voted to remain" (Letters, April 25). Could I just point out that per the wording on the ballot paper, 62 per cent of Scots voted for the UK to remain, not Scotland. I am increasingly fed up with this statistic being continually "hijacked" by the SNP.

Liam Sommerville,

321 Mearns Road, Glasgow.

HOW does Robert I G Scott (Letters, April 26) know that 2,000,926 people voted "emphatically" for Brexit? I suspect that many included in that number voted with reservations of one kind or another.

Eric Duncan,

11a Muirend Road, Cardross.

YOU report that many customers are ditching Scottish banks (“Thousands switch accounts away from Scottish banks”, The Herald, April 26) Is this due to poor service as stated in the article, are Scottish banks really worse than the rest, or is this a reaction to the threat of independence?

Scott Macintosh,

4 Alder Crescent, Killearn.

YOUR Letters Pages (April 26) again focused on the "Ayes" and the "Naws" arguing for and against another referendum. Neither side seems to be able to understand the view of the other which is mainly caused by the opposing smoke-and-mirror arguments put forward by our political class.

I suspect what the country needs is for politicians to grow up and in doing so their very often immature behaviour would simply disappear, leaving responsible mature adults working together for the benefit of all of the population. The problem of course is how on earth could this be achieved?

Perhaps a very simple solution can be found in tour very interesting leader ("New brain research gives insight into ageing process", The Herald, April 26). Research is currently being undertaken to establish whether or not "MRI scans could one day predict a patient’s brain age, allowing early intervention giving ‘older’ brains the opportunity to change their lifestyle and diet and hopefully become ‘younger’”.

I would suggest that researchers, using all Scottish politicians in their research programme, completely reverse their strategy and identify the child-like immature brains, of which there are many amongst our politicians, with the aim of making them more mature and adult-like.

In doing so scientists at the University of Edinburgh would provide a great service to society, but only if they can do so before June 8, 2017.

John S Milligan,

86 Irvine Road, Kilmarnock.