Burning fears

Families are being put at risk because the fire service has too few firefighters to staff all of its engines, warns a union. Stations across Edinburgh have been reduced from two to one engines in recent months, while specialist roles such as water rescue and major crash response have also suffered.

When are the SNP actually going to pay attention to the day job? Recruitment to the emergency services used to be easy, such was the desirability of the careers these offered. Now though, falling numbers, exacerbated by absences, have led to people shunning the opportunities. Of course, it also doesn’t help that the level of abuse suffered daily by firefighters, ambulance staff and police has surged.

Esox Hunter It’s quite clearly because the fire engines and stations don’t have “FIREGH ALBAGHHGH” signs on the front of them. The SNP will wisely spend taxpayers money to put this right soon.

Opposable Thumbs

Frontline firefighters or a £200k for climate change mitigation and a trip to Poland for the FM & entourage? Oh the choices.

Ayrshire Dad

What about the foreign aid we pay, in ADDITION to what we already pay through the recognised UK system?

Auld Cynic

What a record this SNP administration has, in charge for 11 years and all it has achieved is the destruction of this country.

Dave Fleming This is too far, surely, as people’s lives are at risk, due to this we can get the Scottish Government and Holyrude kicked out for total incompetence, how could we start this, anyone know ?

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