SNP’s bad reaction to scrutiny
A WORRYING pattern is beginning to emerge of the SNP Government attacking independent scrutiny of their record.
A few weeks ago at First Minister’s Questions, I raised a report from Audit Scotland, the country’s financial watchdog, about the SNP’s college record.
But faced with cold hard evidence that she had cut almost 160,000 student places from our colleges, Nicola Sturgeon simply attacked Audit Scotland.
It was astonishing – but it wasn’t out of character for her or her Government.
Last week, it was revealed that the SNP Government tried to rewrite key sections of another Audit Scotland report – this time on the condition of our NHS.
This comes on the back of revelations that the SNP tried to rewrite sections of an independent report on poverty.
These are the actions of a tired government who are in denial about their failings.
After a decade in power, the SNP are being forced to defend their record and the brutal reality is that a lot of that record is unacceptable.
Rather than make the radical changes in policy that would deliver a better country, it is easier for the Nationalists to attack independent organisations and try to whitewash criticism.
But Scotland deserves better than that.