Different worlds

What an embarrassing spectacle watching First Minister Nicola Sturgeon seemingly so pleased with herself that the so-called independent inquiry did not find against her in any single area where her and her government’s failures were clear. James Hamilton SC gave her the benefit of any doubt in all areas, including that it was not impossible that the First Minister “forgot” about a meeting four days before she met Alex Salmond!

Further, we have the report from the Parliamentary inquiry that on the face it it would seem to have heard an entirely different set of facts, with no overlap to the Hamilton inquiry. Consequently the Parliamentary report paints a very different picture, detailing a litany of failures both in procedures and behaviour.

Following the Parliamentary report, and indeed, before its release, we have the SNP “pack dogs” in full aggressive mode, attacking its credibility. Real and trustworthy “Devolution” at its best!

However, the First Minster is hugely generous in showering one and all with apologies and yet still no one has taken any responsibility and “fallen on their sword”. One can only hope that the electorate will express their displeasure and distaste of this rotten and utterly discredited administration in the polling booths.

Anyone thinking that this coterie of self-interested and self-indulgent charlatans could run an “independent” Scotland are living in a parallel universe and not in the real world. The consequences of an SNP majority at the election is terrifying.

RICHARD ALLISON Braehead Loan, Edinburgh