Ingratitude?

I am very surprised that the SNP do not congratulate the Westminster government on their incredible generosity with the furlough scheme for Scottish workers.

If I were English, I would be outraged by the cautious emergence from lockdown of the Scottish Government. Taking two examples – hairdressers and construction workers. In England they have been working (and contributing through the tax system) for weeks before their stillfurloughed Scottish counterparts return to work.

The plight of furloughed airport ground staff will be just the same following the SNP decision to quarantine Scotland’s favourite holiday destination.

I can hear Nicola Sturgeon’s “outrageous” and “sacrilege” comments were the UK government to decide that once they make a decision that a group of workers have to return to work then it applies to all four home nations!

Easy to be ultra-cautious when someone else is picking up the tab!

DOUGLAS COOK St Ninian’s Road, Linlithgow

Nicola Sturgeon’s delay in opening health clubs is truly astonishing. The weight and diet problems of our population, and their impact on the Scottish health service, ought to be a priority for this government.

Instead, I feel all planning relating to the Covid outbreak

has been subsumed into a political calculation: the SNP needs to be seen to be doing things to its own agenda and “Nicola will look after you” is the overarching message that the Scottish Government wants to get across.

MICK WHARTON Fouledge Cottage, Hawick