Don’t reward SNP for ‘failure’ at ballot box, Davidson urges voters
VOTERS must not reward the SNP for “failure”, Ruth Davidson has warned ahead of Thursday’s council elections.
The former Scottish Conservative leader urged pro-UK voters to hold the SNP to account.
Ms Davidson said First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is treating Scots as “fools” over the ferries scandal that has engulfed the SNP in recent weeks.
The Scottish Government has been criticised by opposition parties over significant delays and overspends on new ferries being built at the Ferguson shipyard, Inverclyde.
The party is accused of failing to supply significant documentation around the ferries’ contract – which the SNP administration has previously denied.
Ms Davidson, who has been supporting Scottish Tory leader
Douglas Ross on the campaign trail, said: “The failing record of Nicola Sturgeon and her candidates is on the ballot paper this Thursday.
“They’ve left Glasgow filthier than ever before. They’ve left drug deaths to spiral in Dundee. They’ve got plans to make it unbelievably expensive to drive to work in our capital city.
“Don’t reward the SNP for failure. Get out to the polls on Thursday and teach them a lesson.
“Scotland is worse off now than when the SNP came to power. ”
A spokesman for the SNP said: “One session on the doors would tell the Tories all they need to know about the public’s view of their party.
“If the Tories put half as much effort into lobbying Boris Johnson to act on the cost-of-living crisis as they did firing insults at the SNP, they might not be slipping into third place in the polls.”