The quicker they go , the better Scotland will be. Double defeat for SNP in 'humiliating' blow over school meals and train fares scotsman.com/news/politics/…

Scottish Express Can we just have a Holyrood election to get rid of these clowns once and for all….

ScotGov Education COSLA Scottish Government Did the £29m come from the money given to you from WM to pay the WFA to the elderly ? Just asking on behalf of Scotland’s pensioners…

SNP politicians, before you open your hypocritical mouths on winter payments, think of the funded quangos, the failed bank, the "unusual" business deals, Acting like being an independent country when you are a very poorly run regional administration . A failed one at that.

Ross 67🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇵🇸 Gavin mark irvine 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Last year revenue £88.6bn. Pensions and benefits £21bn Shared services £23.2bn. That left £44.4bn Between them Scot Gov, councils and public corporations spent £66.8bn. So who created the deficit?

The SNP John Swinney Another lie from Swinney. The funds for the pensioners heating support has already been given to the snp for 24/25. Only the snp could stop the payments to the pensioners and they did🤷

Gavin Backofajotter Ross 67🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇵🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I agree with you and we posted excellent facts. I’m arguing with one just now and he’s never changed. SNP can do no wrong because they’re the independence party. That’s a cult eh!

Dr Paul Monaghan I do hope you didn't vote yes in 2014. Every yes vote was a vote for the snp to instantly remove Scotland from the EU. The idiots whining about being out of the EU are the same idiots who voted for it

Alex Gill It is the oldest refinery in the UK and in need of significant upkeep. It is losing money, and your beloved SNP jumping into bed with the toxic Greens , pursuing this net zero pish certainly hasn't helped ! There is your answer, lad. Do your own homework next time, please .

Jeannie McCrimmon Further, "England denies Scotland is its colony"? What do some of the more intelligent (yes I know it's a low bar), separatists have to say on the "colony" bullsh1te?

Stephen Flynn MP It's the UKs seas, of course. Scotland got and gets a full geographical share of UK oil revenues anyway, typically over 90%. That's what's used to calculate our colossal deficit. You want it left in the ground. So what are you whining about?

Another truth bomb for our nationalist chums 👍

Murdo Fraser Salmond and the other nationalists are yesterday's people with yesterday's ideology. We dodged a massive bullet in 2014, and now the matter is closed. We have moved on from this disastrous nationalist experiment.

Missy UK Roddy Dunlop KC Compared to the SNP, the Taliban are Libertine and fun-loving party animals.

Michael Tandino BELLA CALEDONIA In those 10 years the gullible nationalists have discovered that Salmond, Sturgeon, Humza and Swinney all lied to them. Salmond and Sturgeon criminally so. In those 10 years 'No' voters have discovered 'yes' voters are incapable of understanding what an actual fact is

Cú Chullain But they have to pay for their hospital treatment, which will far outstrip all that for pensioners. Snp promised no council tax, snp could pay the winter fuel allowance. Snp issues, creating grievance for the daft and gullible nats.

Why didn't the SNP invest in Grangemouth

Tenement philosophy There is no route to Scottish Independence without a majority of Scots voting for it.