SNP should stick to day job

What is Nicola Sturgeon doing in Brussels, having meetings with Mr Barnier, when she has no constitutional responsibility for Brexit ?

There are increasing problems at home with public dissatisfaction at the incompetences of local councils and health boards. These should take precedence over needless glad-handing meetings with EU officials.

This was tried, and failed, in the run-up to the 2014 referendum, when SNP attempts to gain EU endorsement for independence were politely turned away.

We also now see a re-run of the laughable 2014 White Paper that attempted to persuade us of the rosy future of an independent Scotland, while omitting any references to likely downsides.

In this SNP Growth Commission Report we are seeing the same bluesky scenarios and the same hopelessly vague hypotheses of what might be.

I earn my living in commercial business management and if my strategy team had produced a report of such woeful factual omissions, they would have been fired on the spot.

How refreshing it would be if we could see a properly researched financial model that would truthfully inform the Scottish people, on a best-case/worst-case basis, of the economic benefits and downsides.

One that would attempt to show why the future economic position of an independent Scotland, to say nothing of its position in the world, would be so much better than that which currently prevails.

If Holyrood is serious about tackling poverty and deprivation in Scotland, surely it has a primary responsibility to properly disclose all issues surrounding financial and fiscal sustainability.

Once again, we see the SNP failing in its day-job while concentrating its depleting energies on grandstanding and commissioning of pointless forecasting. Derek Farmer. Knightsward Farm, Anstruther.

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