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By Liz S

“Labour Government promises”

Aye don’t they just……..their only problem being that they then fail to deliver.

An SNP investigation has revealed Starmer’s failed Brit card scheme cost the public almost £1 million – despite never being implemented.

That reminds me of this…………

The feasibility study into Boris Johnson’s bridge/tunnel connecting Scotland and Northern Ireland that proved to be , yet (another) flawed vanity project by Johnson , to then be considered as being totally unfeasible……..

As a feasibility study it cost the taxpayers £896,681. It was led by Network Rail chairman Sir Peter Hendy, the 2021 report concluded that the project was “impossible to justify,” with estimated costs of £335bn for a bridge or £209bn for a tunnel.

Also known as a ‘Bridge too far”.

From a financial perspective it puts into perspective the (false) accusations from the Tory & Labour branch offices in Scotland as to how much they say that the SNP, as the Scottish government, supposedly waste in taxpayers money , especially when their respective HQ parties waste far far more on failed and flawed projects , some that do not even get off the ground.

Then of course other projects that do not even get on the ground , if one takes into account the other huge expensive failure that is the Ajax Armoured vehicles, a government project via the former UK Tory government , with initial estimates state costs around £5.5 billion, but reports have cited up to £6.3 billion.

Over £10 million per vehicle.

589 vehicles are ordered.

8 years behind the original schedule.

On 26th November 2025, it was reported in the British media that the Army had halted the use of Ajax vehicles .

It was then reported by the BBC (English HQ) on 20 February 2026 that:

“The (Labour) defence secretary (John Healey) has refused to give a timescale on when all the investigations into the troubled Ajax armoured vehicles programme will conclude”.

“The Ministry of Defence (MOD) paused testing of the ‘machines’ after 35 service personnel across 23 vehicles became ill, with reports of soldiers vomiting and shaking following training last year”

“The Ajax vehicles were originally due to enter service in 2017, with the 589 vehicles ordered” .

“But the £6.3bn programme has been beset by problems and repeated delays”.

You know Douglas Ross was right last week (just not in the sense of who he was accusing, as in the SNP) when he said “ “This comes down to transparency. This stinks”.

Of course Ross is an expert on so many things that were connected to him and also to his party at HQ that lacked “transparency” and also that “Stunk” (too many to list) .

Did some of his own colleagues in the Tory branch office not once say that something “stinks” in the way that he, Ross in the past, had formerly become the ‘leader’ of the Tory branch office when Carlaw was ousted (officially he, Carlaw, pretended that he had resigned)……

As back then the branch office manager position was uncontested so more really a coronation of Douglas Ross as the branch office manager than an actual leadership competition.

Also Ross incurred the wrath of many of his branch office colleagues in 2024 in respect to Ross’s deplorable treatment of one of his Tory colleagues, David Duguid , in the 2024 UK GE. (indeed that lacked “transparency” and it also “stunk” as an action by Ross).

A plot (that backfired for Ross) as it then lost the Tories that seat and also lost Douglas Ross that WM parliamentary seat too #Karma……….

However looking on the bright side he, Ross, is now not standing this May for our Scottish parliament……..so he will be one of those MSP’s ‘not missed’ by opposition MSP’s, but also , I am sure , not missed by many within his own party in the Tory branch office either (especially Jackson Carlaw).

What’s next for Douglas Ross ?

I mean we all know which rogue pretend party is the perfect fit for him…..so why is he taking him so long to finally take the plunge.

As to the other branch office manager, Sarwar, well in September 2025 at the Labour party conference he claimed that the Scottish government was “failing to deliver” , well if that is meant to be a negative then he should look at what his own HQ party have “failed to deliver” since coming to power in July 2024………

That would be mainly the “Change” that both he, Sarwar, and they, Labour HQ , promised us all that we would see and so experience if Labour won the 2024 UK GE.

Tory and Labour branch offices assume that they can both critique the SNP , while they and also their own respective HQ’s have a track record in opposition and in government(s) that should silence both of them as branch offices forever (via sheer embarrassment and an abundance of shame).

Best way for us all to communicate our displeasure at them would be to not to vote for any of them , indeed do not vote for any pro UK party in the Scottish elections this May.

Liz s

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