Resigning auditors, a Serious Fraud Office investigation & un-minuted dinner dates: just who has the SNP Government jumped into bed with? How much exposure are taxpayers liable for?
Do these guarantees ,if called in,exceed Scot Gov’s ability to borrow ...which ability they have been at such pains to deny they have?If not,would Scot Gov pay the debt by cutting budgets and ask the taxpayers to cough up?Or are they able to issue Scot Gov bonds on the debt? In a perverse way it seems almost like an argument in support of independence...that Scot Gov should have the power to pay the price of their incompetence?
If we're talking about paying a price, I'd like to see it start with a few resignations. I did notice the First Minister quietly shuffled Fergus Ewing out of the cabinet after the May Holyrood elections...perhaps she anticipated the Gupta chickens coming home to roost? Now she can distance herself, just like she has tried vis-a-vis the Ferry fiasco with a line about it all being a matter for an 'ex-minister'.
I honestly think there would be more likelihood of SNP cutting local authority budgets to pay for their folly than sacking any one of their own.You’re according them principles they have never evidenced.
Utterly damning and for once I am almost speechless. Many thanks for all of your hard work.
Do these guarantees ,if called in,exceed Scot Gov’s ability to borrow ...which ability they have been at such pains to deny they have?If not,would Scot Gov pay the debt by cutting budgets and ask the taxpayers to cough up?Or are they able to issue Scot Gov bonds on the debt? In a perverse way it seems almost like an argument in support of independence...that Scot Gov should have the power to pay the price of their incompetence?
If we're talking about paying a price, I'd like to see it start with a few resignations. I did notice the First Minister quietly shuffled Fergus Ewing out of the cabinet after the May Holyrood elections...perhaps she anticipated the Gupta chickens coming home to roost? Now she can distance herself, just like she has tried vis-a-vis the Ferry fiasco with a line about it all being a matter for an 'ex-minister'.
I honestly think there would be more likelihood of SNP cutting local authority budgets to pay for their folly than sacking any one of their own.You’re according them principles they have never evidenced.