Jill Stephenson Archives - Page 8 of 11 - Scotland Matters

Letters to the press, 21/07/22: “What on earth was First Minister Nicola Sturgeon doing at the Open in St Andrews at the weekend wearing golfing attire, carrying a golf club and stopping by a practice area to address a golf ball?”

21 July 2022/in Ian Balloch, Indyref 2, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 19/07/22: “Currently, all is not rosy in SNP ranks. Ms Sturgeon has turned out to be a divisive character not only to the country but to the opposition and even to those in her own party not adhering to the party line.”

19 July 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Gerald Edwards, Indyref 2, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 15/07/22: “I had completely forgotten that Alba MPs Neale Hanvey and Kenny MacAskill were sitting at Westminster, so little have they done since that party came into being”

15 July 2022/in Alba, Dennis Grattan, Indyref 2, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, Victor Clements /by sm_admin

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, 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, 29/06/22: “Ms Sturgeon demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of past and current economic circumstances. The problems, she says, are due to “Tory austerity” and Brexit. Where has she been these last few years? Has amnesia set in? I distinctly remember her invading our television sets day after day to give gloom and doom reports about, er, now what was it? Oh, yes, Covid…”

29 June 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Indyref 2, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence /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, 07/6/22: “lf, as seems certain, there is no referendum next year, what will the SNP do with the £20 million of our taxes they have set aside for it? They could, I suppose, build another couple of pretend embassies, say in Outer Mongolia or the Sahara desert. Or fund some more jaunts overseas for their leading figures to grandstand.”

7 June 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Scottish Government, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 01/6/22: “Ian Blackford is in Cuba for a holiday. However, if he wanted to see a nation with crumbling infrastructure and an inflated public sector ruled by a single party with disastrously socialistic policies led by a long-serving leader who has mismanaged the economy, he could have stayed in Scotland.”

1 June 2022/in David Bone, Dennis Grattan, Ian Blackford, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Scottish Government, SNP /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