Come clean on ferry contract

AN email has been found and a sheet of paper has been waved dramatically in Holyrood (“Swinney was consulted before contract awarded to Fergusons”, The Herald, May 12). However, we still don’t know why the ferry contract for hulks 801 and 802 was awarded to Fergusons.

The best solution for Nicola Sturgeon is to come clean and admit that it was a political decision. She obviously wanted to make a positive announcement to the sycophants at the SNP conference. Admitting her incompetence and saying that “lessons will be learned” will be forgiven or ignored by the nationalists and their activists who will continue to peddle fantasy economics and Braveheart and Brigadoon visions of a seceded Scotland.

James Quinn, Lanark.