The Scottish Government was elected to govern Scotland! Which they are not doing particularly well. If the SNP want to waste their own money and staff time on planning for a non-existent independence, that is up to them, however given their constant whining about Scotland being short-changed by Westminster using taxpayer's hard-earned money for this (a fraction of which is resentfully mine) is scandalous. And, with the state of Scotland's health service, education, transport, drug deaths et al, one would think the First Minister had more important things to spend his time and energy on. Or perhaps those very failings are the reason he would rather direct focus onto and prattle about independence.
The hyperbole in this masks one thing only, the lack of substantive argument.
When a government is formed in the name of the head of state, after winning a mandate from the electorate, it is accepted that said government enacts said mandate. It is, after all, representative parliamentary democracy, by popular consent.
Further, the supposition that the SG is using anything other than resources raised in Scotland isn't just misplaced, it highlights how little grasp you have of the finances of that state. As above, Unionism really hasn't covered itself in glory in managing the public finances of Scotland, and has failed spectacularly at a UK level.
As if to add insult to injury, you retort a myth so easily debunked, a child could prove its inadequacy in convincing anyone.
The facts are plain.
If we don't want to have the SG pursue an agenda of independence, then all that needs to happen is that parties supporting the Union form the SG.
As it stands, that has not happened in Scotland since 2007 under Holyrood elections.
Labour and Tory have lost every single election since 2007, evidently, the voting public feel Independence is a priority among many others, and trust the SNP to mange the state better than the aforementioned parties.
Whether that persists is up for debate, but we will find out in late 24' or early 25' at WM, and 26' for Holyrood.
As an aside, Scotland is performing rather well. NHS metrics are the best in the uk. Exports are healthy, and Scotland takes down the second largest share of FDI after London. Scotland has issues, drug deaths among them, but its not even the beginning of factually accurate to say its been mismanaged under the SNP. Infrastructure as one subject has had more investment under any single SNP administration, than the Labour-Lid dems run of 1999-2007 combined. Nearly 100k social houses have been built since 2007. Its a long list of achievement, like it or not,
But hey, why discuss fact when there is mud to be slung? Who knows, eventually some of it might stick...
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