SNP synonymous with wasting cash

MICHAEL Matheson has sunk to a new low in the £11,000 data roaming scandal that brought him down. The former SNP health secretary could have admitted straight away that he had made an expensive mistake and paid the money back from his six-figure public salary.

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Instead, the Falkirk MSP chose to spin a torturous web of excuses before he was ultimately sanctioned by the Holyrood and temporarily suspended from Parliament.

But Matheson is still refusing to draw a line under this appalling affair.

In a recent interview, the whining MSP bleated that the row had been "blown out of proportion" and exploited by his political opponents.

This is the kind of arrogant attitude displayed by too many senior politicians which enrages members of the public.

Wasting huge amounts of taxpayers' money has almost become almost routine for the SNP government and the other public bodies linked to it.