SNP members leaving sinking ship in droves

We really should treasure the utterances from Muasdale’s “Grumpy Old Man” (Tony Williams; letters, March 17), as he represents one of a fast vanishing breed, with supporters of the SNP deserting in droves.

However, I do find myself in agreement with one of the points he makes, that the BBC pays exorbitant salaries to football “pundits” whose purpose in life is to pad out the short clips of football games supplied to the BBC by the payto-view channels broadcasting the games.

The money paid to the likes of Gary Lineker could be put to much better projects within television.

Let me return, though, to those party members of the SNP who are leaving the sinking ship, with the party admitting more than 40 per cent of its members have quit over Nicola Sturgeon’s self-ID gender reforms.

Can this mass exodus be totally attributable to the gender reform bill, though, or is it that even those so blind they will not see, are finally coming to their senses?

Let’s just take the matter of the two ferries that are more than five years past initial delivery date and more than three times over estimate.

Despite this, senior staff at Ferguson Marine appear to have awarded themselves bonuses of £87,000, as Ms Sturgeon, whose government owns the yard, cannot explain where the money came from.

John Swinney, as deputy first minister, has promised to try and find out where the money went.

Further indication of a party falling apart is the resignation of Ms Sturgeon’s husband, Peter Murrell, as chief executive of the SNP.

Ash Regan and Kate Forbes have demanded the election arrangements be handed to an independent body while one senior MSP has stated that the SNP cannot be trusted to “run its own election fairly”.

Does the result of this election matter much though, as whoever wins will be handed something of a poisoned chalice?

Brian Gee, Carradale.