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Letters / Claiming credit for the work of others or buying election support?

Hannah Mary Goodlad has been claiming that she secured the end of peak ferry fares from SNP ministers, despite being an unelected representative.

That raises two concerning possibilities.

Either the SNP candidate is exaggerating her role, or SNP ministers bypassed our elected MSP and are using taxpayer money to support their candidate and to buy our votes.

The first option speaks poorly of Ms Goodlad, but fits with her recent pattern of claiming credit for the work of others.

The second is even more invidious, as it would suggest that the SNP think they can twist the entire government around buying election support – rather than doing what is right by our communities outside of election time.

Which is it?

Theo Smith
Whiteness

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