Gerald Edwards Archives - Page 7 of 9 - Scotland Matters

Letters to the press, 12/07/22: “Can we now add the gift of precognition to Keith Brown, depute leader of the SNP’s, talents? How does he know that “the next prime minister will still not have Scotland’s best interests at heart”. If he is not blessed with these powers, did he ascend to Arthur’s Seat when the moon is waning crescent to speak with a shawl-clad crone to gain this insight?”

12 July 2022/in David Bone, Dennis Grattan, Gerald Edwards, Ian Balloch, Indyref 2, Jill Stephenson, Keith Brown, Letters, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 06/07/22: “Nicola’s only fooling her Braveheart warrior supporters”

6 July 2022/in Douglas Cowe, Gerald Edwards, Indyref 2, Letters, Richard Marsh, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence /by sm_admin

Letters to the Scottish press special, 15/06/22: IndyRef2 – Here We Go Again

15 June 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Dennis Grattan, Gerald Edwards, Indyref 2, Letters, Nicola Sturgeon, Richard Allison, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 14/06/22: “Sir John Kay – sometime economics adviser to Alex Salmond – tells us in a new book that a separate Scotland “would begin independent life carrying a pro-rata share of UK debt in the region of £180 billion”. Scotland would also need to borrow, he adds, to cover its budget deficit of between £10bn and £20bn, every year. This raises a few points…”

14 June 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Gerald Edwards, Indyref 2, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 09/6/22: “The much-vaunted alcohol pricing initiative of Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP, like so many other of their key projects, has been declared a failure. Those with severe dependency problems were apparently cutting back on food and nutrition in order to pay for their drink. It gives me no pleasure to say that many forecast this was exactly what would happen.”

9 June 2022/in Gerald Edwards, Letters, Scottish Government, Victor Clements /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 20/05/22: When former principal teacher of social subjects Jenny Gilruth became transport minister in January she said it was an opportunity to “help Scotland become a world leader in achieving our goal to become net-zero by 2045″. I’m not sure if she was meaning carbon emissions or ScotRail journeys.”

20 May 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Daily Record, Dennis Grattan, Gerald Edwards, Indyref 2, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Robert Scott, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP, The Scotsman, William Ballantine /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 17/05/22: “The Scottish Government urgently needs to change its direction. The fact is that the political parties supporting the Union received far more votes than the independence supporting ones in the recent election. This was true also in 2014, with a huge turnout and in reality, this has not changed ever since”

17 May 2022/in Daily Record, Gerald Edwards, Indyref 2, Jane Lax, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Local elections 2022, Robert Scott, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP, The Scotsman /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 08/04/22: Scotland could do so much better. Will railways be another disaster? Poll predictions awry. SNP make me feel guilty to be proud.

8 April 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Gerald Edwards, Indyref 2, Letters, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP, William Ballantine /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 28/03/22: “The problem in Scotland, however, is the vast majority of our 4.3m registered voters are still oblivious to what is going on, wouldn’t know a defunct Ferguson ferry if it docked in their back garden, and the opposition parties continually fail to breach this wall of apathy with any compelling, positive, convincing message.”

28 March 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Gerald Edwards, Indyref 2, Jane Lax, Letters, Robert Scott, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 18/03/22: Scot-nats can’t even take a joke. Where did £4.8 billion in Covid funds go? SNP have no fresh ideas for Scotland. Scots indy only ensures decades of turmoil.

18 March 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Gerald Edwards, Indyref 2, Jane Lax, Letters, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin