Let’s look at the reality of Nic’s Teflon Scotland
It is crucial to get the big decisions right in politics. But I believe it’s just as important to be accountable when the wrong choices are made.
As a novice MSP, I’ve been shocked at the SNP government’s jawdropping lack of accountability.
In Nicola Sturgeon’s Scotland, nobody is ever held responsible. Nobody gets sacked. Nobody holds their hands up and says, “that was my mistake”.
Crony-stuffed civic Scotland – starting in Bute House – seems to have collectively agreed that accountability is a quaint anachronism that does not apply to them.
Sturgeon’s government has got itself in a right fankle over the sending of a rapist to a women’s prison.
Adam Graham appeared in the dock at the High Court in Glasgow charged with two counts of rape.
By the time he was convicted, the rapist had self-identified as a female called Isla Bryson.
The Scottish Conservatives dragged the scandal into Holyrood and, after a public outcry, the rapist was rightly removed from the female prison.
The SNP is entirely responsible for this scandal. But who has been held accountable? Who has said sorry? No-one.
We’re supposed to believe it was nobody’s fault that a sex predator was allowed into a place housing vulnerable women. This is not a oneoff, and the SNP were warned.
Just a few weeks ago, I told them explicitly about the risk of manipulative male criminals exploiting the gender self-ID prison policy.
Many women’s groups and campaigners, including the heroic JK Rowling, have been warning of the risk to women for years.
This is just the latest in a long line of disasters where the SNP shrugs and arrogantly moves on. They have spent more than £250million on two ferries that don’t float.
Sturgeon’s finger-prints are all over the CalMac scandal. Yet neither she nor a single one of her hapless ministers will walk the plank.
This is despite the monumental squandering of taxpayers’ money and the shameful betrayal of our island communities.
Don’t forget, Sturgeon was found by a cross-party committee of MSPs to have misled the Scottish Parliament and the public over the Alex Salmond scandal.
Her government wasted taxpayers’ cash in pursuit of Sturgeon’s political mentor turned nemesis, then even more trying to defend their reckless blunders in court. But – with grim predictability - nobody was sacked.
Then there’s the Rangers prosecution scandal. Innocent men were maliciously hounded by the Crown Office.
This is a blight on Scotland’s legal system and confirms that the head of the Crown Office, the Lord Advocate, should not also sit in the SNP cabinet.
It has cost £51million and counting in compensation, with every penny being taken from squeezed frontline services. A sheriff and a police officer have been proved to have committed misconduct. But, of course, no-one has been held to account.
This is the reality of living in Sturgeon’s Teflon Scotland.
Serious mistakes and negligence are overlooked. Wrongdoing is covered up. And nobody takes responsibility.
The scandal of this double rapist has exposed this sickening truth for all of Scotland to see. We are being taken for mugs.