Actually, to be fair to the Nats (much as it pains me), they tried to can the whole thing back in 2007, when they first became a minority administration, but they didn't control the Holyrood parliament and the other three main parties voted to force them to continue funding it. Then a couple of years ago when Edinburgh Council tried to cut their losses and terminate the tram line at Haymarket (so that it wouldn't even come into the city centre, much less through it and down to Leith docks as originally planned), as they were by now a majority in parliament they threatened to withdraw all funding unless the council agreed that the line had to come into the city centre.
The tram project has been one disaster after another, but the incompetence is firmly located in Edinburgh City Council chambers and, for once, the SNP's instincts were correct, in first of all trying to kill it, and afterwards insisting that if it was going to be done, it had to be doe properly.
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Meanwhile, it's B&Q's turn to bully Alex Salmond. Kingfisher has already suspended openings of new Screwfix branches, B&Q itself will suspend investment in the event of a Yes vote until issues surrounding currency and tax rates are resolved.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...ependence.html
Be sure to scroll down to the Diqus panel, some of the cybernat comments are absolutely priceless.
