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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

Minimum alcohol pricing is the latest in a long line of SNP failures – CAPx

12 June 2022/in CAPx, Health Matters, Scotland Under the SNP, Scottish Government, SNP /by sm_admin

The ‘strong men’ and their illusions – Think Scotland

12 June 2022/in Nicola Sturgeon, Politics Matters, Scotland Under the SNP, Scottish Government, SNP, ThinkScotland, Uncategorised /by sm_admin

SNP paid £49m to build stricken Ferguson Marine ferries from Covid business support department – Daily Express

12 June 2022/in Daily Express, Ferguson Marine, Scotland Under the SNP, Scottish Government, SNP /by sm_admin

Industry angered by Scottish business waste ‘zone’ plan – MRW

9 June 2022/in Environment Matters, Scottish Government, Scottish Greens, SNP /by sm_admin

SNP urged to ‘come clean’ about second independence referendum – The Guardian

9 June 2022/in Indyref 2, Politics Matters, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP, The Guardian /by sm_admin

‘Fans prefer to walk back to city centre’, says minister amid train chaos – STV News

9 June 2022/in Jenny Gilruth, Scottish Government, SNP, STV News, Transport Matters /by sm_admin

Scotland is a Zombie Nation – Notes on Nationalism

9 June 2022/in Kate Forbes, Nicola Sturgeon, Politics Matters, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, SNP /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