No apology
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she will not apologise for decisions made around the Ferguson marine ferries which have faced significant delays and cost overruns.
Who does she think she is?! Throwing taxpayers money around on total incompetence!
David Campbell She’s never cared about taxpayer money.
Mike Scales
Unbelievable, £250 million for 400 jobs and that's not the final cost, there will be more problems to come.
Gordon Younger
SNP never admit fault, accept blame, or resign for wrongdoing.
Dale Kupris She wastes £250 million, and that’s without the terminal restructurings, when she could have paid £50m for two ferries as the Norwegians have recently done. She lied over the 400 workers’ jobs and has ‘lost’ vital documentation. I wonder what it would take for her to apologise? Oh yes, to witches from centuries ago.
Elizabeth Robertson Once again – she could have given £1m to each of the workforce at the start of this fiasco, had two ferries built in Poland and we'd still be better off.
Paul Holyrood How utterly unsurprising. She thinks if she stonewalls the Shortbread Senate often and long enough, it will be forgotten about. They may give on but the Scottish Public won't.
David Sutherland So she honestly thinks it is good use of £250m+ to ensure the employment of c.400 people for a couple of years?! Her support for independence has always suggested she didn't understand basic economics but this really is beyond ridiculous!
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Padley Cross
Except it wasn’t 400 people, only about 150.
Hedgingbets Hedgingbets Sturgeon believes that she's been blessed with divine infallibility.
Ah’m no bluffin Of course she will not apologise she doesn't, and never has in her life done anything wrong, totally beyond reproach. "If other governments applied the same principles...". The sheer audacity of the woman knows no bounds.
W Mac Nailing her colours to the Ferguson mast, any more delay or cost overruns will only add to her misery, and
best of all it is all self inflicted and she will reap what she sowed.
Luckie Mucklebackit
Box ticking
“Even King Herod could run a census. Why can't the SNP?” asked Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser in his regular Perspective column.
Because they are totally incompetent and clueless about doing their actual day jobs, that is why they have totally and completely destroyed Scotland in the eyes of the entire world.
John Lord
Censuses should be abolished. just like the Scottish Parliament . Unless it stipulates a manifesto for a truly independent republican Scotland.
Alain Traynor A census is to decide what services will be required. How does asking if you are British or Scottish do that? Asking pensioners what they did before they retired has no bearing. The SNP have discovered that many people are ignoring their census form.
Grumpy
I’m Scottish and BRITISH. As such, the census questions were not valid.
Nikoliar Slamondski
Why can't the SNP run a census? Because the SNP can't run anything right. What else is new? And the SNP being the SNP, they simply couldn't resist putting politically motivated nuances into it that people object to. Result, 70 per cent completed in Scotland, 97 per cent in England & Wales.
The SNP really need a period out of government. A L-ON-G period. They are simply useless at it.
Jock Tamson Never filled in a census in my life.
A Norris Why would you feel the need to boast about that? Census data is used to predict trends which are used by local and central government to plan the future provision of services as fundamental as whether a local area needs a new school or hospital. Nobody is interested in the details of your individual return.
FC
It seems the NHSS is now being used as pollsters. Apparently you can’t get simple procedures such as a Covid jab or donate blood without declaring if you are British or Scottish. What in Hades has that got to do with the NHSS? So who has put them up to that?
Paul Holyrood