Stephen Kerr

This is what nearly two decades of SNP failure on justice looks like: rising crime, weaker sentences and a justice system that criminals can increasingly take advantage of.

This is yet another insult to taxpayers and another indictment of the SNP's broken justice system.

Ministers must stop dithering, shut these loopholes and ensure public money is spent supporting victims - not criminals.

Fewer officers on the streets puts public safety at risk and every officer cut is a gift to criminals who know Scotland's overstretched police force can no longer investigate every crime.

The SNP's savage cuts to police budgets have weakened frontline policing, yet they still expect them to do their jobs with one hand tied behind their backs.

The results of their cuts are plain to see and communities are living in fear of violent offenders.

The SNP have failed to give Scotland the police officers it requires and that situation is completely unsustainable.

After nearly 20 years in government, crime is soaring, while the number of police officers continues to be slashed.

Scottish taxpayers will be utterly sickened that the legal aid bill for Peter Murrell is set to keep rising, with tens of thousands of pounds now likely to be handed to the lawyers of a man who has been jailed after embezzling more than…

Ordinary Scots who play by the rules will be astonished that they are helping to pay the legal costs of a man who admitted embezzling more than £400,000.

Honestly some SNP MSPs and MPs need to take a day off from being professionally offended and remember this is a game of football.

Nobody is asking them to paint their faces, wear St George’s Cross waistcoats, or start singing Three Lions. Just wish our neighbours well, enjoy the football and stop turning everything into another nationalist grievance.

This absolutely stinks and undermines public confidence in Scotland's legal aid system.

Freedom of information laws are there to protect the public’s right to know, yet the nationalist Government repeatedly failed to comply with the commissioner’s decision and deadlines.