Voters will look to the record

Sir, – Allan Sutherland (Letters, June 4) states, regarding Scotland’s care home system, that: “It has been clear for years that the objectives, management, regulation, oversight and funding have been lacking.”

Quite right. This unsatisfactory state of affairs has been with us for decades, with private care homes in particular found wanting when caring for residents they have contractually accepted as their responsibility, in exchange for large fees.

As a prominent member of the Torybacked Scotland in Union group, his desire to pay more tax to fund a better care system is commendable, but is at odds with his own party’s aversion to such policies.

Our Scottish Government has very limited tax powers, in spite of his claim otherwise.

Any minor changes the SNP have introduced have been met with howls of derision by Tory MSPs and MPs.

Mr Sutherland, in looking forward to next year’s Holyrood election, appeals to his own leader, Jackson Carlaw, to join with Richard Leonard and Willie Rennie in order to “get the SNP out of Holyrood”. Repeating the unionists’ unquestioning orthodoxy of the SNP’s, “lamentable track record”, he hopes this unholy alliance will prevent another SNP victory.

Mr Sutherland should heed the reality that the Scottish electorate will decide who governs Scotland, based not only on party manifestos but on previous experience of the various parties’ records.

History is not on his side. Ken Clark. Thorter Way, Dundee.

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