Waste of money

It is interesting to note that the priorities for the SNP are to provide a new design for Scottish police cars – in Polish, perhaps, or possibly made-up Gaelic – no doubt at considerable expense to the taxpayers of this part of the UK. On top of that, we have the renaming of streets throughout our English-speaking cities in gaelic. At what expense does that come? The SNP is also paying £2.5 million for the production of a dictionary in Gaelic (your report, 24 April) for a whole one per cent of the population of the country. That must be about the number that would fit into Murrayfield stadium, with a lot of room to spare.

It is also interesting that these huge sums of money are deemed more important than paying to sort out the great shortage of GPS and other doctors who are leaving the Scottish NHS in droves, supporting food banks, developing decrepit areas of Scotland like Nicola Sturgeon’s constituency and preventing our fantastic countryside being turned into an advertisement for Chinese windmill manufacturing.

When I see the number of beggars on the streets of Scotland’s cities, I hope that James Dornan MSP will forgive me for telling him to open his eyes and look around the country his party has misrun for many years. His narrow-minded ignorance and name-calling about the UK cannot compare with the feelings about his party felt by millions of Scots, for which there are no words.

ANDREW HN GRAY Craiglea Drive, Edinburgh