Letters Archives - Page 17 of 22 - Scotland Matters

Letters to the press, 18/04/22: Nicola Sturgeon is asking people to vote for the SNP in the local authority elections to “send Boris a message”, but Boris Johnson is not responsible for your bins, your education, your planning, your parks, your verges, your pot-holes, your schools, your swimming pools, your libraries, your street lights, your social housing, your town halls, your council tax, your business rates or your social care.

18 April 2022/in Dennis Grattan, Indyref 2, Letters, Local elections 2022, Robert Scott, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP, Victor Clements, William Ballantine /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

Letters to the press, 11/04/22: “Many are unaware the Scottish Government that has full autonomy over the NHS in Scotland but clap like performing seals when the First Minister deflects issues as the fault of Westminster. When they are driving around the traffic cones, barriers, temporary traffic lights and over the thousands of potholes on their way to the polling booth and perhaps think of how many drug deaths could have been avoided, food banks made extinct, littered streets cleaned and services supported with the millions squandered on malicious prosecutions, compensation pay-outs, pretendy foreign embassies and the ferry follies while reducing the shipbuilding pride of the Clyde to joke status”

11 April 2022/in Allan Thompson, Covid-19, Dennis Grattan, Indyref 2, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /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, 05/04/22: Just how much more have the good folks of Scotland got to put up with from this feeble excuse for an administration, the political case of which is built entirely on historical emotion, and grievance against the UK? One thing they are good at is the adoption of the blame game – to quote that auld Scots expression: “It wisnae me”.

5 April 2022/in Ian Balloch, Indyref 2, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Robert Scott, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 01/04/22: “Before 2014 I was largely comfortable in my identity; I was Scottish and British. In 2014 it was open to attack for the first time. The SNP has used every election, local and national, to campaign for another referendum where not only your political views are questioned, but your sense of identity as well.”

1 April 2022/in Allan Sutherland, David Bone, Indyref 2, Jane Lax, Jill Stephenson, Letters, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin

Letters to the press, 30/03/22: ‘”There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics”. This quote could apply to the SNP regarding the ferries shambles, the Prestwick Airport shambles, the Salmond inquiry and the attempt to rewrite Scottish history.’

30 March 2022/in Allan Sutherland, Ian Balloch, Indyref 2, Jane Lax, Letters, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /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, 25/03/22: “When it comes to conceiving, ordering, commissioning and executing major projects, the SNP Government is all at sea. Unlike the ferries.”

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

Letters to the press, 24/03/22: Sturgeon revealed for who she really is. Scots police cuts worsen anti-social behaviour. Ferries drowned at birth. Jobs threatened by SNP windfall tax.

24 March 2022/in Douglas Cowe, Indyref 2, Letters, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP /by sm_admin