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Letters to the press, 17/03/22: “If the SNP want to keep alive their raison d’etre of Scottish separatism, their best course is to demonstrate how efficient, competent and honest devolved government in Scotland could be. They have failed signally, in almost 15 years, to do that.”

17 March 2022/in Gerald Edwards, Indyref 2, Jane Lax, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 15/03/22: Sturgeon’s easy virtue signalling. Incompetent SNP rule. Reality-free green zone in Scotland.

15 March 2022/in Douglas Cowe, Gerald Edwards, Ian Balloch, Indyref 2, Letters, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 08/03/22: Nationalists march downhill again. SNP exposed by war in Ukraine. SNP/Green coalition need to U-turn.

8 March 2022/in Dennis Grattan, Gerald Edwards, Indyref 2, Jane Lax, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 03/02/22: “It will be interesting to see what the new indy prospectus that the SNP/Greens are spending £700k on has to say about who pays Scotland’s £9 billion annual pension bill”

3 February 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Gerald Edwards, Indyref 2, Letters, Pensions, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 14/12/21: “As the handouts continue the revenue dries up. This is unsustainable.”

14 December 2021/in Gerald Edwards, Letters, Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 03/12/21: “The SNP was always a party of protest and dissent. Now it is experiencing the real dilemmas such behaviour creates for those in authority”.

3 December 2021/in Gerald Edwards, Indyref 2, Letters, Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 24/11/21: “It appears the only ‘eight-minute response time’ the SNP have managed recently is the gap between Nicola Sturgeon’s selfies at COP26”

24 November 2021/in Gerald Edwards, Indyref 2, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 29/10/21: The Chancellor has given Scotland around £15 billion extra money over the next three years. The SNP’s response to this windfall is predictably to complain

29 October 2021/in Gerald Edwards, Letters, Rishi Sunak, Robert Scott, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 25/10/21: It came as no surprise to read that more is spent in Scotland on school pupils than in anywhere else in the UK. That it is £800 per pupil did come as a bit of a shock. What did also not come as a surprise was to learn that this increase in spending did not translate into better standards and performance.

25 October 2021/in Gerald Edwards, Jane Lax, Letters, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 07/10/21: “Hearing Humza Yousaf say that things are going to get worse before they get better is frightening”

7 October 2021/in COP26, Gerald Edwards, Jane Lax, Letters, Scottish Government, SNP /by sm_admin