Ministers’ mistakes

convince your colleagues to stop riding on the SNP’S coattails and save us all from this political, economic and social deep-freeze by letting us elect some competent people who are interested in what is best for Scotland. ALLAN SUTHERLAND Willow Row, Stonehaven the sooner the relevant positioning papers appear the better. In 2010, under Alex Salmond’s leadership, the Scottish National Party Transport Minister, Stewart Stevenson, took responsibility and resigned after the disastrous travel chaos that winter.

Fast forward to 2017, under Nicola Sturgeon’s leadership, and we have SNP ministers ruining Scottish education, presiding over a badly failing NHS, watching as transport efficiency declines sharply and ignoring the catastrophic mistakes the police are making.

In most cases, these are multiple ministerial mistakes, not isolated ones. Just what does it take for Ms Sturgeon’s SNP’S administration to admit similar ministerial responsibility