Irvine Doesn't Live Here Anymore!
Given the mess the SNP have made of things over the past 10 years I'm afraid Irvine's argument doesn't stand up to serious scrutiny.
Irvine of course has lived in America not Scotland during this period, Chicago I believe, so he doesn't experience first hand the terrible NHS waiting times, the drop in education standards, £400+ million 'ghost ferries', Covid care home deaths, self-ID baloney etc etc.
I think it's fair to say that if SNP ministers had put the same effort into combatting drug addiction as they've invested in 'Indy' over the past decade, Scotland would not still be the drug deaths capital of Europe.