Clockwise from top left: Anas Sarwar, Nicola Sturgeon, Douglas Ross, Alex Salmond, Willie Rennie and Patrick Harvie THE 2021 Scottish Parliament election is finally upon us. A record number of people have registered to vote, with more than three-quarters signed up to do so in person. So before casting a ballot in the polling booth, it’s important to know exactly what it is you’re voting for. Handily, we’ve compiled a quick guide to some of the key manifesto promises made by the SNP, Tories, Labour, Greens, LibDems and Alba. From independence to the pandemic, and education to the economy, we have listed the party’s headline pledges in each area.
Quango boardroom chiefs face questions over taxpayer funded salaries
Part-time roles for quango chiefs nets them gargantuan salaries.
Dame Susan Rice said the SFC faced a significant challenge
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The excessive payments being made to the part-time boardroom bosses of Scotland’s public sector quangos can today be revealed by the Sunday Mail.
NEWS that NatWest bank – formerly RBS Group – is threatening to move its HQ to London if the Scottish electorate has the democratic temerity to vote for self-government will confuse lots of folk north of the Border. After all, the bank’s London-based bosses have been saying the same thing for donkeys. Only last July, Sir Howard Davies, the pro-Unionist chairman of the board, made the same announcement. That’s the guy who had to resign as head of the London School of Economics after he hobnobbing with Colonel Gaddafi’s regime in Lybia. NatWest still has lots of employees at work in the old RBS HQ campus at Gogarburn. This enormous, 100-acre complex was built as a vanity project under the old RBS regime of Fred “The Shred” Goodwin. It cost an absurd £350 million.
ALBA Party leader Alex Salmond has called for the Borders Railway to be extended to Carlisle and for the dualling of the A77 from Ayr to Stranraer in order to “turbo boost” economic recovery in the area and the south of Scotland. Speaking at the launch of the Alba south of Scotland campaign yesterday, Salmond said: “As we emerge from Covid it can not be a case of business as usual or of small scale incremental changes. “We need to think big if we are to bring about a sustainable economic recovery, breathe new life into our towns and villages and spread the economic benefits out of the central belt.