SNP Spin Machine

1. The number of lives lost to drugs is unacceptable, each one a human tragedy. @scotgov does not shirk the responsibility & we are determined to make changes that will save lives. These 2020 figures (though no less shameful because of it) predate actions set out at start of year

— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) July 30, 2021

No sooner had Nicola Sturgeon issued a tweet (from her private Twitter account) supposedly accepting the Scottish Government's responsibility for the appalling drug deaths scandal than the SNP spin machine got to work making pathetic excuses and pointing the finger elsewhere.

Here's a good example from an SNP MP:

"Hopeful that new spending by @scotgov will save lives in future but major changes in UK law required to really tackle problem."

The fact is that the law is the same across the UK - yet Scotland has a far bigger problem and much worse record than anywhere else in the whole of Europe.