Spad wasters

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court is scheduled to deliver its verdict on the SNP’S spurious claims for another referendum and, surely, the SNP will be given a flea in their ear.

However, the First Minister’s taxpayer-supplied and funded SPAD army will not then turn to using their brains to help solve Scotland’s myriad and deep seated problems and suggest, for example, curtailing profligate spending on nationalist shibboleths and use the money instead to pay fair wage claims and aid the poorest and most vulnerable in society.

The “special advisers” will instead be employed in attempting to find any new grievance whatsoever to help their obsession with breaking up the UK, to the exclusion of all else and the weary people of this country will be faced with further years of division and festering hatred and misery. ALEXANDER MCKAY

Edinburgh