This article criticizes both the Conservative Party and the Scottish National Party (SNP) for their handling of Scotland over the past decade, arguing that they have used division and constitutional politics as a smokescreen to mask failures. The author claims that the result is a weaker Scotland with record NHS waiting lists, rising homelessness and poverty.
The referendum was a watershed moment in our politics, but what is important now is where our country is going – not where we have been.
Whether it was the Tories at Westminster or the SNP at Holyrood, the sad fact is that the people of Scotland have been failed by their governments. And in the case of the SNP, it's meant a failure to take governing our country seriously and created an SNP that views government as a campaign rather than a mechanism to deliver for the people of Scotland.
Ten years on from the referendum and the fact is that regardless of whether you voted Yes or No, you have been failed. I truly believe that there's nothing that Scotland can't achieve if it has two governments willing to put public service and delivery ahead of party and campaigning.
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