If You've QUITE finished, Can We Now Get Back to Governing, Mr Scott?

It's not surprising that some people get cynical about politicians and their hangers on, when we look at a couple of recent events in the Scottish Parly.

A few months ago, we had the stushie over the Trump golf resort. The opposition parties, led by the LibDems, had it that there had been nasty work at the crossroads over the planning approvals.

In the event, it was a non-event, and the government was cleared. And a £1bn resort was approved.

Now, we have yet another waste of time and money, gratis the Liberals, following a report by Messrs Reid and Steel that totally cleared Alex Salmond, who did not, in fact, mislead parliament over funding for the Scottish Inter Faith Council.

In fact, the enquiry found that the ex convener of SIFC, Major Alan Dixon, had in fact been given, and had accepted, assurances from the government prior to the parliamentary question being asked.

So when the Eckmeister got on his pins and confirmed that the funding issue for SIFC had been resolved, he was telling no more than the truth.

This has been accepted, with the grace and wit we have come to expect, by Tavish Scott, who made the accusation in the first place.

But I have to ask - what was the SIFC up to, when (and I quote) "Some members of the Executive Committee chose to issue comments and briefings to people outside the decision-making process that were completely at odds with the understanding of the Scottish Government and the indications the SIFC had given to both the minister and government officials."

The upshot of this truly dumb waste of time, is that Tavish has yet again been pinned on trying to score unsubstantiated and ill founded political points scoring, and that Alan Dixon and the executive of the SIFC should have serious questions to answer.
Which of course they won't.

If this was the SIFC's idea of skilfull brinkmanship, I can only say that I would welcome a game of poker with them at a time of their choosing.