Agreement reached is the best outcome

Joanna Cherry: I would’ve liked a contest, but here’s why I’ll support John Swinney

Thanks for this eloquent and insightful article I think the agreement reached was the best possible outcome at this moment and will bring the SNP back into line with where the people of Scotland are.

This is the only place from which an agenda for independence can be built. Joanna – the movement will need your experience and brains, wherever you are operating from. B Campbell

Very good article. Wise words well expressed. We need more of our MPs contributing in Holyrood as well as Westminster.

Harry Sillitto

Great positivity all the way through, such a pleasure to read. William Findlay

Come up the road to Holyrood, Joanna and take Stephen with you. Another dream team. Margaret Skinner

Joanna Cherry sets out a fine list of what a truly forward-thinking (I’ll refrain from using that utterly discredited term) agenda would comprise.

Embracing these, however, would mean not just one reverse ferret but a whole business of them, by someone who, as Sturgeon’s right-hand man and prime mover in the Bute House Agreement, was quite content to adopt the Greens’ policies and run every SNP initiative past them for approval. The SNP are now apparently so keen to pander to Ms Slater’s credo, that the party is now even recycling its former leaders.

I don’t share the writer’s optimism that anything has really changed, however in an attempt to join her in looking on the bright side, at least, with Swinney at the helm, Joanna is guaranteed a return as an SNP Westminster group spokesperson in the next parliament, and likely shouldering several portfolios.

Kenzie Garnier Stewart

Well said, something has gone seriously wrong in this era of McCarthyism if professionals working with children can’t discuss or question treatment paradigms.

Let’s get back to helping people who are struggling to feed themselves, and pay extortionate rents.

E Vyner

Scottish Labour MSPs believe UK bosses ordered Waspi vote abstention

Basically the Scottish Labour MSPs are admitting that they are only there to do what they’ve been told to do by London.

James Finlayson

Between this and Labour’s rolling back on their promises about workforce reforms in favour of workers, then those left-leaning Unionists who have not been paying attention, need to sit up and have a proper think about things.

Joan Coverley