SO the foreign secretaries from England and America fly to Ukraine to tick some boxes whilst completely ignoring the latest atrocity carried out by the monstrous Israeli commanders, again bombing so-called safe havens as they again blatantly completely ignore the growing revulsion from across the entire world.
But hey, things are much better back here as whilst our whole nation struggles to pay our literally criminally priced energy bills as London continues to try hide the catastrophic and ever increasing financial damage of Brexit, we discover the completely out-of-touch leader of the SNP has decided it would be a good idea to waste public monies on a monument for a foreign monarch whose family have caused so much harm to Scotland for hundreds of years and continue to leech huge amounts from us with every passing day.
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The downright stupidity and lack of joined-up thinking is genuinely terrifying, and to then hear the adulterer they absolutely ridiculously call “majesty” is invited to send everyone to sleep at the 25th anniversary of Holyrood, if this is not a total act of spineless subservience then nothing is. It reminds me of the stomach-churning, cap-doffing, truly disgraceful but also very revealing resignation letter from Nicola Sturgeon which really showed her true colours.
Are the SNP leaders completely oblivious to the fact that the vast majority of people on Scotland, the people who voted them, have little or no interest in the so-called “royals”? It makes you wonder what’s really going on and whether we are all being taken for a ride like it’s all a big game?
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Finally, I hear that Amazon has announced it’s investing something like £8 billion into Britain over the next five years. Call me cynical but if this isn’t a deliberate tactic to try continue avoiding paying proper taxes here, nothing is, and the sum is no doubt far, far less than the amount they have avoided in taxes.
It really is one law for the rich and a completely opposite one for the real beating heart of early country, the hard-pressed, hard-working people. The SNP need to get their act together or get the hell outta dodge as their complete failure to act on a nation’s wishes for independence over the last decade or so is downright criminal.
Iain K
Dunoon
THE SNP definitely took their eye off the ball when they relegated support for independence to a few mentions of the word here and there as well as the awful so-called independence papers. Instead their focus has been on policies which are dividing the party – and even the country – such as the GRR Act, the Highly Protected Marine Areas and the fiasco over trying (and failing) to organise a deposit return scheme.
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However, it looks like current stand-in SNP leader John Swinney hasn’t learnt from any of this – and why should he, when he was actively promoting the policies mentioned earlier? So when people are suffering from a cost-of-living crisis, our energy has been hijacked by companies making record profits and pensioners are facing their worst winter in years thanks to the removal of the Winter Fuel Payment, he proposes setting up a committee to build a statue of the former Queen Elizabeth I of Great Britain!
Has he lost the plot? Did the SNP absolute hammering in the UK General Election mean nothing to him? At a time when the monarchy is getting a £45 million increase in their funding as pensioners freeze, Swinney wants the public to pay for a memorial to the late Queen.
Alex Beckett
Paisley
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