‘Incompetent’ Nicola Sturgeon is being chastised for wasting £3 billion of taxpayers’ money

THE SNP-led government has been chastised for squandering more than £3 billion in taxpayer funds during its tenure.

Nicola Sturgeon came under fire from the Scottish Labour Party’s leader during Thursday’s First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood.

Anas Sarwar grilled Ms. Sturgeon about a list of failures he claimed cost each household £1,200.

He cited £152 million in botched ferry contracts at the Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow, as well as £40 million in wrongful prosecutions of the Rangers football club as examples of “failures.”

Mr Sarwar stated during the meeting: “£3 billion of public money has been lost as a result of SNP incompetence – that is the cost of SNP failure.”

“The list is endless – from £152million on a failed ferry contract at Fergusons to the £146million spent fixing this Government’s mistakes at the Edinburgh Sick Kids and Queen Elizabeth in Glasgow.

“£40million and rising on the malicious prosecution of Rangers and almost £200million on failed industrial interventions and loan write-offs.”

The Labour leader also said nearly £1billion had been spent for agency workers for the NHS “because Nicola Sturgeon cut training places when Health Secretary”.

He also said that “over a billion pounds” was spent on delayed discharge because of their failure to fix the social care crisis.

“Every penny of this wasted money could have been more cash for our NHS, more cash for our schools or more cash to tackle the cost-of-living crisis.

“Rather than helping people with the cost of living crisis, why is this Government instead making them pay the cost of SNP failure?”

But Ms. Sturgeon fired back, disputing the claims, calling them “nonsense”.

She said: “What Anas Sarwar failed of course to mention is that this government has had 15 years of unqualified accounts.

“That is the reality in terms of our stewardship of the public finances.

“One of the examples he’s talking about prosecution.

“Prosecution decisions, of course, are matters for the independent crown office.

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