It seems that Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has given up any hope of improvement in NHS Scotland and has resigned his ministry to despair and hopelessness in tackling any of its many problems. Nicola Sturgeon should hang her head in shame over what has happened to our NHS under her charge and find additional resources as well as a new Health Minister. DFG, Aberdeen.
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It is a basic tenet of our democracy that MSPs are meant to represent the wishes of the people. How does this square with Nicola Sturgeon’s iron rule over her MSPs’ voting intentions? The recent debacle over the Gender Reform Act demonstrates that if MSPs are given their own choice, they do not always support government policies. The SNP’s Shona Robison has now said there was “overwhelming support” for this bill but it is understood that other MSPs were not happy about the whip being installed, even in other parties. This is not a democratic act by Holyrood and the fact it has to be forced through reinforces this. This is a sorry moment for Scottish democracy and the blame does not lie in Westminster this time, but Holyrood. The big question is, why is Nicola Sturgeon so adamant that this bill must become law? Gerald Edwards, Glasgow.
The daily diatribes spoken by Nicola Sturgeon on any subject have no doubt been prepared by a plethora of spin doctors working round the clock for almost 15 years. The weaknesses of the arguments presented are clearly and easily recognised by a number of honest and objective critics but generally missed by gullible nationalists. The economic nonsense of Nicola Sturgeon’s pie-in-the-sky economic predictions for a referendum clearly have no credibility and have just been ignored. An even worse economic fate would befall Scotland if independence actually happened. This is probably the least credible of all the independence proposals presented to the voting public of Scotland. This is almost certainly the least favourable moment in time to make such a change with global economic woes and also the most amateurish proposal. It was certainly not worth waiting for. Has the new SNP proposal been independently checked by any serious economic experts? The answer is no, which is why there has been no run on the Scottish pound, which does not exist, and the interest rate of Scottish gilts also remain changed as they do not exist either. Sturgeon is clearly pulling an imaginary lever. It’s all a complete imaginary hot-air pretence and best just ignored. David Philip, Knockhall Way, Newburgh.
Humza Yousaf said it will take five years to fix NHS Scotland. He’s 100 per cent right as long as he’s at the helm. It could be a lot less if we had a health secretary and government in Holyrood who know what they are doing. Ian Balloch, Grangemouth.
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