Team Sturgeon - World Leader In Baloney

Scottish Ministers could do with dropping the grandiose claims about Scotland becoming a 'world leader' for this that and the next thing - and just get the basic things of life working properly. 

The Scottish Ambulance Service, for example, or building two small ferries without wasting hundreds of millions of pounds in the process.


SNP Arrogance, Politicians and Public Money (April 06, 2022)



Astonishing political arrogance on display from the SNP as ministers shamelessly used a 2015 party conference to announce a Scottish Government shipbuilding contract - despite expert advice about the unacceptable risks involved to the public purse.

If I'm not mistaken, that's the SNP leader of Glasgow City Council, Cllr Susan Aitken, on stage behind Humza Yousaf, as the decision is greeted with wild acclaim.



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