Craig Hoy: “The bank must not become another SNP vanity project where taxpayers are left to foot the bill for failure while…”

The damning results in this survey show that SNP ministers have lost control of their ever-growing army of civil servants.

Their economic approach has the country stuck in a dangerous doom loop of ever-increasing taxes and low growth, which is resulting in far less tax revenue being collected than expected.

John Swinney was clearly ignoring the warnings from business leaders and economists that continually hiking taxes kills growth.

John Swinney and his ministerial colleagues need to accept their approach is going to mean more pain for Scots in the coming years, through more tax rises or spending cuts or both.