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Letters to the Press, 20/06/23: ANOTHER SNP leader, another proposal to “protect us” from Westminster.

20 June 2023/in Humza Yousaf, Jane Lax, Letters, Nicola Sturgeon, Richard Allison, Scottish Government, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 23/03/23: ‘There has been a culture of obfuscation and cover-up under the Sturgeon/Murrell partnership and the last thing we appear to need with a new leader is the “continuity” position’

23 March 2023/in Allan Sutherland, Humza Yousaf, Jane Lax, Letters, Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Government, SNP, SNP leadership contest /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, 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, 18/11/22: “The SNP’s Emma Harper stuttered a scripted contribution in `Scots’, including the bewildering sentence: ‘The Scots leid is a michtie important pairt o Scotland’s cultural heirship, kythin in sang, poems and leeterature, and in ilkaday yaise in wir communities forby'”

18 November 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Douglas Cowe, Jane Lax, Letters, Robert Scott, Scottish Government, SNP, Victor Clements /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 28/09/22: “The Scottish Government has allowed the closure of local police offices by the formation of Police Scotland”

28 September 2022/in Dennis Grattan, Ian Balloch, Indyref 2, Jane Lax, Letters, Scottish Government, William Ballantine /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 08/07/22: ‘It’s not “Project Fear” or “lying” but well-established facts and, as they say, “the truth hurts”‘

8 July 2022/in Indyref 2, Jane Lax, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, Victor Clements, 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, 27/04/22: “One of Nicola Sturgeon’s arguments in defence of the Ferguson Ferry fiasco is that the £245 million spent in the seven years since the contract signing in 2015 saved 300 jobs. In fact, without this contract, the SNP could have used the £35m per year to employ 1,130 people on the national average wage of £31,128”

27 April 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Dennis Grattan, Indyref 2, Jane Lax, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Local elections 2022, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 14/04/22: First Minister shouldn’t throw stones; she’s in her own greenhouse. Political point scoring. It’s up to the SNP to find extra NHS cash. Scottish Greens will work with you…unless they disagree with you.

14 April 2022/in Covid-19, Indyref 2, Jane Lax, Letters, Richard Allison, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin