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Letters to the press,14/02/23: “SNP Transport Minister Jenny Gilruth has blamed the Russians for the lack of progress on dualing the A9 in the Highlands. Weren’t they also responsible for the low Census return rates last year?”

14 February 2023/in Allan Sutherland, David Bone, Gerald Edwards, Jenny Gilruth, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Government, SNP, Ukraine-Russia War, United Kingdom /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 09/02/23: “this SNP Government throws money at anything that they think will either buy votes or cause divisions.”

9 February 2023/in Dennis Grattan, Gerald Edwards, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Nicola Sturgeon, Richard Allison, Scottish Government, SNP, United Kingdom /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 07/02/23: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.’ For the sake of Scotland, let us hope history is repeating itself.”

7 February 2023/in Gerald Edwards, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Mark Openshaw, Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Government, SNP, United Kingdom /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 25/01/23: “The UK Government couldn’t have picked a better issue or fight to begin a common-sense reset of devolution, expose the SNP Greens’ vulnerability and, well, stupidity”

25 January 2023/in Allan Sutherland, Gerald Edwards, Jane Lax, Letters, Mark Openshaw, Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Government, SNP, United Kingdom /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 20/01/23: “Her dictatorial grip on the party is waning as the Westminster contingent experiences rising levels of dissatisfaction with her lack of progress on independence”

20 January 2023/in Gerald Edwards, Ian Balloch, Letters, Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Government, SNP, United Kingdom, William Ballantine /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 29/12/22: “Nicola Sturgeon needs to step in, but perhaps having been a health secretary herself she is loathe to. The result is precisely what we are all experiencing right now: stasis. Something or someone has to change”

29 December 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Dennis Grattan, Gerald Edwards, Humza Yousaf, Letters, NHS Scotland, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 15/12/22: The SNP is not focused on education, health, transport, the economy and the things that matter to the public. “All we hear from it are empty promises — mealy-mouthed words which are meaningless”

15 December 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Dennis Grattan, Gerald Edwards, Jane Lax, Letters, Mark Openshaw, Nicola Sturgeon, Robert Scott, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, Shirley-Anne Somerville, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 07/12/22: “Why is it that those who wish to destroy the UK are frightened to provide “the people of Scotland” with real facts and figures, the economic and financial details to show that Scots for generations will be better off in an independent country?”

7 December 2022/in Dennis Grattan, Douglas Cowe, Gerald Edwards, Letters, Scottish Government, SNP, Victor Clements /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 11/11/22: “Our current crisis might have been avoided if SNP finances were being carefully nurtured but”free” hand-outs have created a monster that is beginning to bite back”

11 November 2022/in David Bone, Dennis Grattan, Gerald Edwards, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Mark Openshaw, NHS Scotland, Scottish Government, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 03/11/22: “Our police force has been decimated under so-called modernisation. I am sure we shall see no improvement until we go back to localised policing, but I won’t hold my breath.”

3 November 2022/in Gerald Edwards, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Police Scotland, Scottish Government, SNP /by sm_admin