And so Scotland must continue to wait. This week’s Programme for Government, Holyrood’s equivalent of the King’s Speech, was yet another damp squib, the latest and probably the last missed opportunity for the SNP to show it still has what it takes. If it wasn’t clear before, then it certainly is now that only a new government will have the guts and the energy to face up to the many challenges confronting the nation.
There isn’t much money to spend – stringent cuts are being imposed across the public sphere due to the SNP’s past profligacy – but John Swinney might still have shown that he understands the scale of the crisis facing schools and hospitals. Instead, there was only more of the same: limp, peripheral tinkering that is unlikely to make much of a difference.
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