Policecars‘999’

It is interesting what people spend money on. There are those who criticise people who send their children to feepaying schools but who buy expensive 4x4s and take holidays in the Caribbean instead, while the parents who pay for little Hamish to go to a private school putter about in a 20-year-old jalopy.

Then we have those in power who complain about central government niggardliness, despite getting far more money than our cousins south of the Border per head. However, we don’t need to worry. It is being well-squandered – sorry, “invested” – in spin doctors helping to prepare the ground for an unwanted, unnecessary Indyref2 when the paint is still drying on Indyref1.

It must be marvellous to be so impervious to reason that the only thing that matters is breaking up the UK.

To illustrate that the Scottish administration has taken leave of its collective senses we have the announcement that they are trying to get the government to refund the £125 million of VAT they were told would be payable before they amalgamated the Scottish police forces. Did they listen?

Now we discover that our police cars are clapped-out. What a surprise. Could it be that a fraction of the money spent on adding the slogan “Poileas” to police vehicles might have been better spent

on repairing them? Just think; if the SNP did not waste time and money on such idiotic ideas, maybe they could actually do their job?

ANDREW H N GRAY Craiglea Drive, Edinburgh