Letters / Every right to complain
Yet more drivel fae Douglas Young (‘Join the 1.6 million’, SN 7/10/14), a man that harps on about wanting true democracy but when that very democratic process the referendum run by the SNP turns up a result he does not like then he pompously tells us we can’t complain about school closures.
Maybe he thinks we deserve everything we get now. Well the SNP get a grant from Westminster that is larger per head of population than the other parts of the UK and it is up to the SNP what they spend it on. Trips to the golf, free pile cream for millionaires, subsidised study for such things as history of art.
So when Edinburgh decides to prioritise these things over the education of our children then I feel that I and everyone else has every right to complain. The thing is we had an opportunity a couple of years ago to secure the funding needed to keep every school open and even improve on what we had, but Edinburgh took control of the negotiations with Total and we got nothing. So yet again I feel we have every right to complain. So, Douglas, why don’t you join the 2.4 million that did not vote the way you wanted and start holding the Scottish government to account?
Ali Inskter,
Burra
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