With apologies to William Topaz McGonagall.
“the Forth bridge scandal looks very sinister
and this time it isnae the fault of Westminister”.
An English train (oh the shame of it all) has been rerouted to Scotland to help to alleviate the escalating
mayhem caused by the cavalier attitude and performance of the SNP Government and
their hapless transport minister Derek Mackay over their mishandling of the Forth
Road Bridge closure. The bill for this train and another similar train being
used will of course be met by we taxpayers as Scotrail are now run by a private
Dutch company who are not legally responsible for any of this and, call me an
old cynic if you will but I reckon they do not do charity. It also appears that
for the SNP and Mr. MacKay, ‘sorry is the hardest word to say’ as they doggedly
cling to their now predictable catch all defence of “we knew nothing about this”.
The lead engineer for the bridge however disagrees with them and states unequivocally
that warnings were given more than three years ago about the danger of “delaying
repairs” the SNP it seems either knew better or took no heed of those warnings.
Mackay rightly faces accusations of trying to mislead the public. He stated
that the crack on the structure was not located where the cancelled repairs were
and 24 hours later he said the repairs had they been carried out would have
included replacement of the spot where the crack occurred. The result as it stands
is that the most efficient method of reaching Fife and further north from
Edinburgh is by walking or cycling to avoid the 11 mile tail backs,
Hard incontrovertible evidence exists that the Forth Estuary Transport Authority who were in charge between 2012 and
2013 can show minutes of meetings held at that time which clearly state that
repairs were delayed following a 65% cut in the capital budget by the SNP
government. SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon’s position at the moment is that the 65%
cut was the right thing to do. Derek Mackay as I write is still brazenly hanging
on to his job, needless to say so is Sturgeon. Both are pedestrian, lightweight
over promoted individuals who are where they are not because of ability but
through the patronage of Alex Salmond, they both still bear the imprint of him
sitting on them, they are what we used to call “yes men/women”. They still think
that the bribe of abandoning bridge tolls to harvest votes was worthwhile just
as they do with Local Tax freezes and free prescriptions for those who don’t
need them, despite the state of public services and the health service.
Duplicity on such a scale is bound to pile up future problems; the SNP are a
shambles now and getting worse.
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