How long before the bubble bursts?

JUST before the deadline when campaigning was to begin, the First Minister managed just in time to put out the promise to award nurses a four per cent rise. What a smart move to get the nurses onside to vote for the governing party. That promise made the Westminster offer of one per cent look a pretty measly and miserable offer.

Plaudits would have to go to the SNP and allow the party to take a bow as the champion of the medical fraternity and sorority in that circumstance.

Then Health Secretary Jeane Freeman came out with a confession that the Government made a serious mistake by sending discharged NHS elderly patients into care homes, whose presence there most likely seeded the spread of the virus so devastatingly.

Ms Freeman, who is standing down at this election, looks like she will escape scot-free from any culpability in this matter while our Teflon FM will most probably suffer no fallout from this admission.

Meanwhile, still festering under wraps is the report on education by the OECD and that will not see the light of day until after May 6, which will be too late for the electorate to take into account to pass judgment on the record she said she should be judged on as FM.

After 14 years in government, poll ratings suggest the SNP is untouchable. How long before that bubble will burst and its record laid bare for what it is, pinned upon the one premise of independence, an illusory perspective since the intention is to take us back into the arms of the EU where we will have to conform to the rules and regulations of that body instead of being subordinate to the Westminster lot? Denis Bruce, Bishopbriggs.