Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
I was wondering if this is about society today or whether it had always been this way. Resignation seemed to be the way to preserve some integrity but I'm not sure that ethos is valid today, particularly in politics where the politicians seems to have only a political background to fall back on.
Politicians often resign before they are sacked to ensure that they might again be promoted in the future.
The current Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Health is Humza Yousef who was a failure as the Scottish Government Transport Minister.
On 1st April 2017 he travelled to Islay to attend a ferry summit organised by Brendan O’Hara the SNP MP for Argyll and Bute to discuss the crisis regarding CalMac Ferries at that time on the Kennacraig to Islay route. The summit was attended by the ‘great and good’ on Islay with ordinary members of the Islay public not invited to attend.
The summit was a waste of time as it achieved nothing apart from the politicians having a ‘jolly’ on Islay and no doubt topping up their supply of free bottles of whisky from the various distilleries on Islay.