Returning from overseas to Scotland and appraising the current state of our Government is depressing:
Drug deaths up.
Transport brief adrift.
Standards in education in decline.
Shoddy workmanship endemic across govt.
... including their centrepiece 5-year programme which is strewn with errors.
Cabinet Secretaries winging it.
Govt offices lying empty.
Civil servants not up to the job.
... if they can be bothered turning up for work.
We cannot go on like this.
Scotland deserves better.
(don't get me started on Westminster)
"that's not crofts. Unless I am unaware of public bodies that own land that is used for crofting" [Climate Action Committee 17 Sep 2026 09:38]
Scottish Ministers own 95,000 hectares of crofting land containing over 1500 crofts (almost 10% of all crofts).