It’s time for us to become aspirational
AS WE MOVE towards the end of Covid-19 restrictions and look to our lives post-pandemic, it is time for us to be aspirational. For the past two years, we have had to give our full attention to mitigating the effects of the virus and protecting our NHS. Governments have had to fulfil their duty to the citizens by taking appropriate measure to protect them from a highly transmissible virus.
We are not entirely out of the woods yet, although a lot of data is showing us on the right track and coming to the end of our need to treat Covid-19 as an existential threat.
So it is time for us to look forward towards to the time when we can move our focus towards future facing policy that can make a real and positive difference here in Scotland.
We have an opportunity that doesn’t come along all that often in governance, to operate with as close to a legislative blank slate as we are likely ever to get.
The question for those in Government is: What are you going to do with this blank slate? Are you going to use it to take a fresh look at issues investing time and resources in new attempts and schemes to address them? Issues that have become a stain on Scotland like homelessness, A&E waiting times, education attainment gaps and horrific levels of drugs deaths all could be approached without the baggage of having to adhere to a previously unsuccessful policy.
It seems that the party of Government in Scotland is uninterested in taking this opportunity, and would rather push on with a tired and unsuccessful suit of ideas, the pinnacle of which is represented by their nationalist obsession of driving a wedge through the middle of Scotland and holding another referendum.
The SNP is a prime example of a government that has been in power for too long and has run out of ideas. They have no answers for the mess that they have made and are unwilling to seize this opportunity of a clean slate to come up with a fresh strategy. Instead they revert to type and promote division. It is time for the Scottish People to evaluate whether they wish to continue with this