Nicola doesn’t have an answer to FMQs
THE First Minister should remember that the Scottish parliament session at lunchtime on a Thursday is First Minister’s Questions – and should strive to provide answers. This is very rarely the case. She should also refrain from using the parliament as a forum for gaining brownie points against the Westminster Government. I am more interested in what the Scottish Government is doing for the Scottish electorate.
HugH Miller, Ayr. LAST week, Nicola Sturgeon turned the tables in FMQs by asking questions and not answering them. This week, she was ‘challenging the Tories’ to answer her questions and making a series of complaints about the party at Westminster. If Miss Sturgeon wants to have a go at the UK Government, the place to do it is Westminster via her team of Nationalist MPs. The whole idea of the Scottish parliament was to make a difference by being closer and more directly accountable to the people of Scotland on Scottish issues. FMQs is not meant to be a party political broadcast on UK issues.
JeAn Bruce, via email. THE Lords can be done away with – Holyrood is now the revising chamber for the Commons, in which Nicola Sturgeon holds the Conservative Prime Minister to account on everything from Windrush and immigration to Brexit. Scottish issues? Small beer for a big international stateswoman like Nicola.
P. evAns, edinburgh.