YOUR VIEWS: SNP 'mistake' over Highland MSP Kate Forbes and Inverness diesel prices
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SNP missed the boat by not voting for Kate Forbes
As I predicted the leader of the SNP has stepped into the First Minister position. I predicted this knowing that the other main parties would not mount a challenge to his election.
I would like to have been wrong and was ever hopeful that the others in the assembly would for the sake of Scotland have formed an alliance and voted as one against the election of the SNP leader for the post of FM.
The only conclusion that can be drawn is that the rest are not interested in the wellbeing of Scotland and are quite happy to see us slide even deeper into the mire for, if you think things will change under “Useless Yousaf”, then think again.
Listening to him after he was confirmed as the new leader was like hearing the ex-FM spouting off about her policy legacy.
We can expect the Green party to continue strutting their stuff and wagging the tail of the dog, for the new FM will not consider putting them where they belong – in the brown bin – as he is not strong enough to run a minority party.
No, the 40,000 out of the 72,000 SNP card holders that voted have missed the boat by not electing a candidate that puts Scotland first.
Kate Forbes would have put all effort into solving the mess left behind by Mr and Mrs Murrel because she realises something that the previous leaders of the SNP never did.
If she can demonstrate to the people of Scotland that the SNP are capable of successfully running the country then a lot more would look at the idea of an independent Scotland than presently do.
Finlay G Mackintosh
Forres
Price difference is of very little help to drivers
Every Little Helps, Tesco says. But Inverness drivers noticed some help is better depending on which Tesco filling station they visited recently, with diesel 8p per litre cheaper at Tesco Ness-side than at Tesco in Inshes just a few miles along the road.
“Diesel in Thurso was 8p/litre cheaper than Inverness a couple of weeks ago, when for years the price of diesel in Thurso was almost always 8p/litre more than Inverness. By my reckoning diesel should be 16p/litre cheaper than it is currently in Inverness. The 8p reduction noted today is a start! But we seem to have been ripped off for months. Every little HURTS.” – Shane Rodgers, Inverness
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