Feb 2021. The Salmond Inquiry Part 3

In Glasgow Sheriff Court many of the witnesses would have been locked up for prevarication at best. Some might be facing perjury prosecutions. The fact that people in very senior positions are advancing at best amnesia and at worst idiocy as explanations for questionable aspects of their evidence makes one wonder if we have in Scotland a 'team of total diddies' at the top. The discovery that £50,000 of public money was spent by the Scottish Government on 'coaching' these witnesses before they appeared before the Committee is hugely suspicious. Perhaps the biggest hint that this whole inquiry was to be a farce was the arrangement whereby it only sits on Tuesday afternoons. How effective can it be if it can only sits in such a bizarre intermittent fashion? Undoubtedly this government-imposed schedule is aimed at making sure that its Report is much delayed.