SNP spending

Michael Kelly (Comment, 3 August) is one of those Labour politicians whose obsessive need to try to discredit the SNP at every opportunity renders them unable to see the wood for the trees.

Instead of railing against the SNP about cuts in services, Dr Kelly should save his anger for those at the top of his own party in London who initiated the cuts of 500 million in the Scottish Government's funding this year and next and were responsible, at least in part, for our current predicament.

Official figures show that Scotland's finances have been in surplus for the last four years, while those of the UK as a whole have been deep in the red.