As if there aren’t enough questions about the SNP’s spending habits, it turns out the Nats have been using £55,000 of taxpayer’s money to fund their library collection. An investigation by Labour has unearthed some rather amusing revelations about the SNP’s reading list, not least that the party has been busy educating itself with books on, er, ‘How To Run A Government’. That might have come in useful 16 years ago…
Public funds were used to purchase 22 copies of the book – almost enough prints for every member of Humza Yousaf’s cabinet. Mr S allowed himself a chuckle at the irony of the book’s tagline, which reads: ‘…so that citizens benefit and taxpayers don’t go crazy’. Try telling that to the swathes of independence donors who don’t know where their money has gone. Or, indeed, the taxpayers who funded these very purchases.
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