I can’t wait for the Scottish Politician of the Year awards in November. I’ve just put a tenner on Lorna Slater winning the new “Nicola Sturgeon award for the MSP who made the most outrageous attempt to blame Westminster for the failure of their spectacularly badly conceived and executed policy”. Her deposit return scheme faces stiff competition from Shona Robison’s GRR Bill and Supreme Court challenge but I’m sure the judges won’t bottle it. Allan Sutherland, Stonehaven.
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Lorna Slater MSP has said that Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme could be scrapped on 1 June, since the company set up to administer it is close to running out of money, especially as Lorna Slater delayed the scheme until March 2024. As expected she is blaming Westminster for not arriving at a decision on whether to exempt the scheme from UK-wide trade rules. Should she axe the scheme there is certain to be a flood of compensation claims. It is a fallacy that the DRS will reduce bottle and can litter, since all 32 councils in Scotland have excellent facilities which council taxpayers fund. Focus should be on the takeaway litter being thrown out of cars, the vapes and cigarettes being discarded in the streets and the large-scale dumping of rubbish in laybys and on farmland. Clark Cross, Linlithgow.
HUMZA Yousaf is determined to spend this summer touring regional assemblies to try to arouse belief in and enthusiasm for a new secession campaign. He said the SNP is “bursting at the seams with talent”. If that is the case, how come their standard of MPs and MSPs is so dire? Yousaf has virtually admitted quality is a problem by pausing the search for a candidate for Margaret Ferrier’s constituency. Jill Stephenson, Edinburgh.
FIRST Minister Humza Yousaf seems determined to uphold his `continuity candidate’ label. In blaming Westminster for the failing bottle deposit scheme he is aping Nicola Sturgeon’s similar tack over her gender recognition reforms. Has no one in the army of SNP spin doctors ever considered that blam-ing Westminster is not on any more? It is the same political trick as blaming the last Labour government – eventually, it just runs out of steam. If the SNP cannot accept responsibility for its many mistakes perhaps it is time it was no longer in office. Continuity can get very tiresome. Gerald Edwards, Glasgow.
THE SNP’s new push for independence is purely a distraction to cover up their failure to govern Scotland, with our essential services and economy in meltdown and the current police inquiries into the party tearing them apart. The SNP have never won a Scottish election and, at best, they have always had a minority government propped up with a few Greens, who have now become an embarrassment to the SNP. Dennis Forbes Grattan, Aberdeen.
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