Expertise behind the wheel?

SIR, – Perhaps the most memorable scene from the film Rainman, starring Dustin Hoffman as the autistic savant (1988) was his character’s assertion that “I’m an excellent driver”. This, for some reason, I thoroughly believed through most of the show.

Being of a somewhat cynical nature, Ms Sturgeon’s pledge to set up “a publicly owned, not for profit energy company” at her 2017 conference brought a snigger of derision gurgling in my throat... in much the same way as Mr Salmond’s earlier promises to nationalise both the Post Office and railway post “independence” met a similar reaction.

Holyrood-owned Prestwick Airport continues to rack up losses and Ferguson Marine is not only way behind on its delivery date for two ferries but has Sturgeon’s government loaning it a total of £45 million. Painfully, we must add education, health service, police, etc, to a catalogue of incompetence.

Ah, the connection you ask? Well it was my sympathy for Dustin’s character in the film and perhaps a hope in expectation of seeing expertise behind the wheel show forth during the run of the film. However as film buffs may remember, my hopes were dashed when he got behind the wheel for an erratic spin on to pavements and all over the roadway... all mirrored by similar SNP assurances of expertise behind the government wheel.

Sam Coull, Lendrum Terrace, Boddam