Such an expression could well have been shouted from the rooftops after the May 5 municipal election, when, once again, the SNP is expected to emerge as Scotland’s most successful party in terms of votes won and council seats. . In many ways, it would be a truly unbelievable result and would prove that Scottish voters do not seem to care about what a terribly incompetent and one-way government the Nicola Sturgeon government is proving to be. As always, the SNP leader is fighting a fairly simple battle, as her background in government, whether local or national, will play no role in her campaign. Instead, she will focus on saying that anything other than her vote would be a boost for Boris Johnson. Admittedly, with his current tax history and escalating cost of living, not to mention the “partygate”, his party is an easy target. However, with each passing day comes increasingly astonishing evidence of how incompetent the Sturgeon government is, as well as how much Scotland’s wrongdoings cost, lost taxpayers’ cash and lives lost in the Covid pandemic. The CalMac ferry contract scandal – originally costing 95 95 million, but now expected to exceed εκατο 250 million £ and possibly up to εκατο 400 million £ – continues to unfold. The latter was the angry claim of Douglas Ross of Tories for concealment thanks to the gaps in the paper path that led to the award of the contract to a state shipyard, despite warnings to the contrary. La Sturgeon insisted that there were hundreds of documents, with thousands of pages, available, but, yes, it admitted that what everyone wanted was missing. This is funny. On a much more serious level, Labor Anas Sarwar takes over the record of deaths in the care home in Scotland at the start of the Covid pandemic. She accused her government of dismissing people from hospitals in nursing homes, saying “they do not usually need a negative Covid test”. And because he insisted on not following the instructions of England, thousands of untested people were taken to foster care two weeks after the introduction of the tests south of the border. He demanded: “Does the Prime Minister accept – in the words of affected and affected families – that this was a shameful, unforgivable, criminal act that cost lives in Scotland?” The Prime Minister accused the Labor leader of “shamefully misinterpreting” her words, but Mr Sarwar’s attack clearly shook her. Then there is another example of how La Sturgeon’s “My Way or No Way” policy, which always does things differently from the UK government, causes chaos and costs money. It decided it did not want Scotland to take part in last year ‘s UK census and drafted its own – in many ways silly – rules for a separate Scottish inquiry. People complained that the survey was biased with respondents not being able to register their nationality as English, while guidance informing people that they could register as men or women based on their gender identity and not biological gender, has prove controversial. All this delay and confusion – with the deadline for completing the investigation now being extended for another four weeks – will cost the taxpayer an extra 8 148.3 million. Once again, so that La Sturgeon can say that it did it in its own way. The most foolish aspect of all, however, was that Angus Robertson, the minister in charge of the census, said that the “concern” of the Scots for the Russian invasion of Ukraine was the reason why they did not fill out their forms.
