Wasted money

Perspective offered an excellent article by Theresa Fyffe, Scotland director of the Royal College of Nursing – “Health staff and public should ask for more” (20 September).

Our Scottish politicians, primarily the SNP ones, should be ashamed that there are more than 3,300 whole time equivalent posts unfilled in the Scottish NHS.

It is no use the SNP saying, as they always do when in a corner, “Things are much worse in England”.

The examples of money that has been wasted over their ten years in office are too many to list... but here are some recent ones. Those of a nervous disposition should look away now.

British Transport Police, £700,000; Prestwick Air-

port, £50,000; free prescriptions for all instead of those on low incomes, £7 billion; Police Scotland, £50 million; free university places for EU students, £100m since the SNP came to power, foreign aid £10m a year – and let’s not forget the £100m of taxpayers’ money thrown at any venture with “renewables” in its name and subsequently failed.

How many nurses could have been trained and employed?

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