FULL marks to Tom Gordon for rightly describing the SNP’s latest power-grab claim as “lazy garbage,” which it certainly is ( The SNP’s latest ‘power grab’ claim is lazy garbage , The Herald, July 1). Moreover, this latest manifestation of bleating and moaning by the Scottish Government is symptomatic of a wider malaise. As your correspondent John McCallum (Letters, June 30) helpfully points out, the SNP is not sustained in power at Holyrood by virtue of its efficiency, efficacy, economy or equity (the four E s of public policy evaluation) but by the promise of the Jam Tomorrow of independence. Likewise, the SNP’s dominance of Westminster seats was founded on promises to “Stop Brexit” and to Lock Johnson Out of No 10”. Both of which were impossible in the first place and indeed have proven to be cynical vote-grabbing gimmicks.