I note the 9 SNP supporters who have hit unfollow with respect to my disparaging remarks regarding the health secretary. Fair enough. But when you or one of your family members becomes a victim of said policy and it damages their health. Look back and remember -
You had the opportunity to actually call out a bad policy that allows such things to happen and you chose instead to turn away from it. That's on you, but I am through holding my words on this.
It would not be so bad, were it not for the fact that this is not an isolated incident. You only need look at the review sites of the SPSO and you will see how bad it is. It is therefore in the interests of your party to fix this deficient policy before it truly backfires.
Why? Well just think for a minute about what happens when badly written and implements policy ends up hurting people and what the fallout from that is. Point and case, a current open committee!
Me? I'm going to be concentrating on getting a positive resolution to the issue by any legal means possible, not just for the sake of my own health, but so this policy doesn't come back at a later date and bite others in the ass - which might just be you. You never know.

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Well gosh! No! But I'm willing to give it a bash!
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...perpetuating the myth when they know that SNP1/2 just does not work.

And many will say: "but martin, the reason the SNP lost a majority in 2016 was that people didn't all vote SNP in both lists"...and that I am afraid to say is also false.
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So! It's almost a mathematical certainty that the 120K votes in the regional list in MSF will be entirely wasted.
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