Stephen Flynn, SNP leader at Westminster, was lightning fast in diving in to demand the UK returns the Elgin Marbles to Greece after the cancelled meeting of the UK and Greek and leaders over this vexed issue. In opportunism Mr Flynn is first class — in the ability to think things through, like all his SNP colleagues, he is an abysmal failure. Were his demand granted, all the works of art of foreign origin in Scotland’s galleries and even private homes, no matter if paid for or not, would be subject to Mr Flynn’s edict and returned to the source country. Or would he have one law for Scotland and another for everyone else? Alexander McKay, Edinburgh.
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RE the Daily Record’s story about female teachers being six times more likely to be attacked by pupils, where is the decisive intervention from Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth? This was a shocking story as all the kids in class will suffer. And, as usual, the Scottish Government is marked absent. What is Scotland’s future going to be like if education is plagued by problems like these? Gerald Edwards, Glasgow.
Fraser Grant (Scottish NHS best in UK, Evening News, November 29) claims that under Michael Matheson’s tenure Scotland’s NHS avoided damaging strikes. I didn’t realise that not only is Matheson a Partick Thistle fan but he is also the timelord, Dr Who, in his spare time. Matheson took over as Health and Social Care Secretary on March 29 this year. The unions representing the midwives and nurses accepted the pay offer put to them on March 20, 2023. And as for Nicola Sturgeon’s “succinct” Covid briefings, I was able to watch paint dry in the time it took her to tell us to stay home and wash out hands. Sturgeon can be called many things but succinct certainly isn’t one of them. Jane Lax, Aberlour.
THE SNP-Green coalition policies have so often met with adverse unintended consequences that it is difficult to know if they are guilty of naivety in not anticipating these outcomes or arrogance by pushing through policies that they know are flawed, and hoping we are too stupid to look past their spin. I am not sure which is worse. The latest is the private sector rent freeze. Who could have predicted that capping current tenancy rises to 3% would lead to landlords massively hiking rents for new tenancies (“ScotGov rent freeze loophole blamed as private rents soar”, heraldscotland, November 29)? Well, virtually anyone with an iota of common sense. For how much longer must we put up with this incompetence? Brian Murphy, Glasgow.