Letter: Unfair on SNP

If anybody is showing signs of desperation at this stage in the Holyrood election campaign, it is Brian Monteith (Perspective, 10 January); itemising one controversial issue associated with each member of the SNP government, and arguing that the only reason the ineptitude of the Labour candidates has not registered with the public is that they have not been noticed at all, are desperately poor debating points.

The state of Scottish political commentary reflects that of Scottish politics: both would gar ye greet.

The SNP, in its first term in office, has proved more capable, energetic, enterprising and successful than Labour in the two preceding terms; that is not saying much, but on any possible showing, it is a fact.

Yet columnists write as if it were not only inevitable but desirable that Labour, without having done the slightest thing to deserve it, should be returned to power this year, thus condemning Scotland to four more years of uninspired and amateurish government by a bunch of political fifth-raters.

Derrick McClure

Rosehill Terrace

Aberdeen