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Originally Posted by jfman
For those not acquainted with unionist retorts in Scotland, they generally look at this too.
No genuine regard for value for money to the taxpayer - London gets a free pass ten times over. No appetite to understand any wider issues so long as they can say “SNPbad”. If the independence argument (essentially that of this thread) presents two choices it’s entirely relevant to point out that the UK Government is equally, if not more, rubbish.
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Every fiasco is bad on its own terms. Standard nat whataboutery (and its sibling, ‘wheesht fer Indy’) doesn’t add to the analysis, it attempts (badly) to deflect from it. It is a fact that this week, MV Glen Sannox has been benched - again - because of a basic manufacturing fault. That anyone else, anywhere else, has ever made a bad decision in public procurement does not alter that fact, nor does it alter the conclusions we can reasonably draw from it.
There is an HS2 thread on the forum, feel free to vent your spleen on it about how awfully that has been managed. I agree with you, it’s a travesty, and wholesale planning reform is required if any major infrastructure project is ever to be affordable and timely in the UK ever again.
None of which detracts from the absolute catastrophe caused by the SNP’s transparent attempt to buy Clydeside votes for the nationalist cause by favouring a small, failing shipyard with a contract that was beyond its expertise, then compounding the error with a series of complacent, mule-headed bureaucratic decisions that guaranteed the failure of a difficult project in inexperienced hands.