By iusedtobeenglish

A shining example of negativity and playing the Blame Game.

Reading an article in the National on John Swinney is to “declare Scottish Government is ‘firmly pro-business’” I found this little gem:

“It is an attempt to bring businesses back on side after the lengthy administration of his predecessor but [sic] one Nicola Sturgeon, who alienated many businesses with lengthy Covid lockdowns and policies such as the deposit return scheme.“

D**n the woman, trying to save lives and even the planet when businesses wanted to make a profit.

Let me make clear that I really do sympathise with the very real struggle that small businesses had and the many that have since gone out of business – and still are. Although I can’t see the problem with the deposit return scheme.

Mind you, I’m old enough to remember when milk and quart bottles of juice were delivered to the door in bottles (and the empties taken away) and when a good source of pocket money was returning other bottles to the local shop. So I’m not sure who was alienated by that one…

I’m not trying to make out she’s a saint and didn’t make mistakes. Neither is she. So there doesn’t seem to be any need for this sentence to be slipped into this article, when it’s not the BBC.

Presumably One Hamish Morrison is not a fan.

Of course, being anti-NS isn’t necessarily being anti-indy. But perhaps it’s time that journalists were obliged to declare their political (and indeed ‘commercial’ and personal) affiliations, whatever they are. Why don’t ScotGov legisl… Oops. Sorry. Forget I asked