The Scotsman

Shona a goner?

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say enough is enough and push through the bill and tell the SNP to go hang. Let them try calling an illegal second referendum and then let the people boycott it. It will signal the end of the SNP, no one wants it except for the fringe nationalis­t zoomers.

The Forests of Azure That isn’t quite true. Until Brexit kicks in there is not likely to be any big push for Indyref2. The SNP, like all political parties, seeks to govern, first and foremost. In this they have been highly successful . from the deluded SNP. Then we can get on with shutting down the £100m a year taxgorging Shortbread Senate and going back to two dozen competent civil servants administer­ing Scotland and divvying up the £15 billion Barnett aid package.

Damian Thirsty The SNP that has been in government in Scotland for over ten years decides how much of it budget is spent on the Scottish NHS. No-one else. per capita in the UK. The most nurses per capita in the UK. She is running a functionin­g health system better than Jeremy Hunt. Don’t see the whiners calling for Hunt’s head. Why?

Because she isn’t.

Scotspat Gavin states stats from 7 years ago. Gavin forgot to add that the health minister’s own Scottish constituen­cy, Dundee, had to close two GP practises due to, wait for it, lack of doctors.

Shengusmck­han The NHS has been in crisis from the moment Thatcher first floated the idea of privatisat­ion. The Tories don’t have the guts to do it, so they will slowly strangle the NHS by constantly cutting its real budget – giving “increases” that are always below inflation rates and never meeting rising costs and by expecting targets that can only ever bring failure.

Ruth Rick & Willie Scotland’s

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