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It’s time for Westminster to take on the SNP – The Spectator

16 June 2022/in Nicola Sturgeon, Politics Matters, Scottish devolution, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP, United Kingdom /by sm_admin

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

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

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

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, 24/05/22: “We’re missing the point on Nicola Sturgeon’s retraction from her “Closing the attainment gap” aim. She has realised that being poorly educated and thoughtless is a major attribute to fortifying the numbers of her followers. So perhaps her next promise will be to close all private schools, so increasing the chances to achieve a zero attainment gap at a mediocre level, providing more fodder for the Indyref2 machine”

24 May 2022/in Indyref 2, Letters, Richard Allison, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP, The Scotsman /by sm_admin

What Scotland can learn from Irish independence: it won’t control interest rates and inequality will widen – The Conversation

20 May 2022/in Economic Matters, Nicola Sturgeon, Pensions, Scottish Government, Scottish Independence, SNP, United Kingdom /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

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