Democrats should not blame people who do not vote for them. “People said” is considered the only password that guides us, even if, more often than not, the words “b —— s” are added at the end of the above phrase.
A similar expression could be echoed from the rooftops following the May 5 council elections, when the SNP is again expected to emerge as Scotland’s most successful party in terms of votes won and council seats.
In many ways, this would be a truly amazing result, and it would prove that Scottish voters do not seem to care what a terribly incompetent and one-sided government the Nicola Sturgeon administration turns out to be. As always, the SNP leader is fighting a clear battle, as her dossier to the government, whether local or national, will play no part in her campaign.
Instead, she will focus on saying that anything but voting for her would be a boost for Boris Johnson. Of course, with his current record in taxes and escalating living costs, not to mention “partygate”, his party is an easy target.
However, with each passing day, there is growing evidence of how incompetent the Sturgeon government is, and how much their mistakes cost Scotland, such as lost taxpayer money and lives lost in dealing with the Covid pandemic.
The scandal over the ferry contract with CalMac – originally costing 95 million pounds, but now expected to exceed 250 million pounds and maybe up to 400 million pounds – continues to unravel. The latest is Douglas Ross’s angry allegations of cover-up due to gaps in the paper trail that led to the award of the contract to a state-owned shipyard, despite warnings to the contrary.
La Sturgeon insisted that there were hundreds of thousands of pages of documents available, but, yes, she acknowledged that the one everyone wanted was missing. Funny that.
On a much more serious level, she is burdened by Labor’s Anas Sarvar over Scotland’s record of deaths in nursing homes at the start of the Covid pandemic.
He accused her government of discharging people from hospitals into nursing homes, saying they “do not routinely need a negative Covid test”. And because she insisted on not following England’s guidelines, thousands of untested people were transferred to care homes two weeks after testing was introduced south of the border.
He asked: “Does the Prime Minister accept – in the words of the families affected and affected – that this is a shameful, unforgivable, criminal act that has cost lives in Scotland?”
The first minister accused the Labor leader of “shamefully misrepresenting” her words, but Mr Sarwar’s attack clearly shook her.
Then there is another example of how La Sturgeon’s “My Way or Not” policy, of always doing things differently from the UK government, causes chaos and costs money.
She decided she didn’t want Scotland to be part of last year’s UK census and drafted her own – in many ways, stupid – rules for a separate Scottish survey.
People complained that the survey was biased, with respondents unable to record their nationality as English, while guidelines informing people that they can register as men or women based on their gender identity rather than biological sex, turned out to be contradictory.
All this delay and confusion – as the deadline for completing the study has now been extended by another four weeks – will cost the taxpayer an additional £ 148.3 million. Once again, so that La Sturgeon can say that she did it her way.
However, the most silly aspect of all this was that Angus Robertson, the minister responsible for the census, said that the Scots’ “concern” about the Russian invasion of Ukraine was the reason why they did not fill in their forms.
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