Retired East Lothian MSP Iain Gray reflects on his time representing county eastlothiancourier.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eastlothiancourier.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
YOU can understand his frustration. Labour politicians like Sir Keir Starmer can’t understand why the Scottish National Party is so successful. It’s just not fair. Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t walk on water. Why are the media not doing more to expose her? His much-heralded John P Mackintosh speech on the constitution said very little about the national question and turned instead into a litany of the First Minister’s supposed failures: worst drug deaths in Europe, third-highest Covid death rate in EU, endemic child poverty, the attainment gap, low life expectancy . I could have added a few myself: hospital building fiasco, privatisation of dentistry, ferries fiasco, BiFab, Hate Speech Bill, Named Persons. the older a government gets, the easier it is to tot up all the things that have gone wrong and present a semi-convincing charge sheet. And this Government has been in office a very long time indeed. The SNP’s more memorable achievements are mostly in the past, like abolis