Five more ways Nicola Sturgeon has failed Scotland

#4 Using Monopoly money to buy Scottish businesses

In 2015, a £97m order was placed for two ferries, for the Isle of Arran and the Hebrides, at the Ferguson shipyards in Port Glasgow, which was seen as a lifeline contract to keep the Jim McColl-backed yard afloat. But SNP incompetence over the design of the ships ended up sinking the yard instead and leaving it in need of a Scottish Government bailout.

The ferries are now more than three years behind schedule and will run to over £100m over budget.  Quite simply, a deficit which a normal commercial enterprise wouldn’t be able to sustain, but is being sustained by tax-paying Scots.

Not content with a shipyard, six years ago the Scottish Government took over loss-making Prestwick Airport for £1 and have since plunged £50m of Scottish taxpayers money into stemming losses made by the operation. Definitely not ‘pure dead brilliant’.

It remains to be seen whether the SNP will at least recover the monies taxpayers have spent on Prestwick over the years, or not.  But whoever thought it was a good idea should go straight to jail and not collect £200 as they pass Go.  And sadly, it’s not monopoly money they’re using – it’s our money.