While every MSP enters the Scottish Parliament hoping to make a positive impact on the lives of people we represent, I doubt many expected to face as emotional and bitter debate as we have experienced this week over the Gender Recognition Reform Bill.
Stand-in SNP finance minister John Swinney has one remarkable talent, the ability to know what every aspirational person is Scotland wants to do with their own money.
In this increasingly discontented winter, SNP minister after SNP minister has bleated the same mantra, that they have no more money to negotiate pay deals with the unions.
While SNP continues to spend its time and our money whipping up resentment to break up the United Kingdom, it’s easy to forget the things which really matter to the vast majority of people are much closer to home.
The last time I checked, and I don’t believe the results have been altered, a majority of voters at the 2019 general election in Scotland voted for Unionist parties, as they did in 2015 and 2017.
With £20m stubbornly ring-fenced for an independence referendum next year a clear majority of Scots don’t want, the SNP’s health minister Humza Yousaf has more brass than the Brighouse & Rastrick band to say the Scottish Government doesn’t have the money to give Scottish nurses a better pay d
With inflation in the Eurozone soaring to 10.7 per cent this month any claim that the cost of living crisis is wholly the fault of the UK Government, as the opposition here would have you believe doesn’t stack up.
The First Minister’s bitter response to the resignation of Community Safety minister Ash Regan not only reveals the vicious treatment meted out to SNP dissenters, but confirms the huge fault lines running through the Gender Recognition Reform Bill.
To say the United Kingdom is sailing through very choppy water would be the understatement of the century. But whatever happens in the coming weeks, new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is already steering the ship into calmer seas.
My parents try not to trouble their doctor, but like all elderly people it’s important for them to know that a good GP is on hand to help with inevitable ailments which come with age.
