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Letters / I don’t feel let down

I read a letter recently that said the SNP had seriously let down NHS staff and patients.

As a glorified toilet cleaner my pay has doubled in the last five years. Where there’s muck, there’s brass.

Also, I will soon be having a joint replacement operation for which I have been on the NHS waiting list for a whole, eight weeks.

As an emigrant to Scotland and then to Shetland I don’t feel let down at all, so don’t believe all the rubbish you read or see online and just make up your own mind.

If you don’t vote, you’ve got no right to moan when the muck hits the pan.

Ian Simmins
Levenwick

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