Standards are slipping

Sir, - I wonder if Ken Clark who writes (March 16) that the SNP is making a significant and positive difference to the quality of life of the average Scot, would like to qualify that statement?

Significant yes, but positive no. What is positive about a chronic shortage of teachers, with headteachers asking parents to teach exam pupils, wards closing in NHS hospitals because of a shortage of staff, GP shortages, potholes in the roads and one in four children in Scotland living in poverty to name but a few things?

I’m beginning to think I live in a Third World country. Kate Ramsay. Beech Cottage. Station Road, Woodside.