DOUGLAS ROSS: He complains of polarisation. He helped cause it. trends now
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As ever, Scotland’s real priorities, such as repairing our public services and delivering economic growth, are of no consequence beside the Nationalists’ own interests.
He isn’t worried by the crumbling NHS, declining educational standards, the cost-of-living and housing crises, transport, crime, local services and an economy stagnating thanks to SNP policies.
After all, he was integral to the government that created these problems.
Even if he had any interest in halting and reversing the damage SNP policies have inflicted on the country, he’s about the worst-placed person to do so.
His fingerprints are all over those failed policies.
He was the man sent out to defend them when it became clear they were falling to pieces. He has been chief fixer and operator of the SNP’s machinery all through their time in office.
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He is the ultimate continuity candidate for a regime mired in scandal, knee-deep in cover-ups and now swamped by the consequences of its own catastrophic decisions.
This thoroughly discredited party’s offer of a fresh start is a typically secretive and
