Date: 18 May 2009 Brocklebank: Scottish Government hasn’t learned from last year’s SNP Roadshow Speaking after the Scottish Government announced it would go on another Cabinet tour this summer – this time to Dundee, Melrose, Stornoway, Aberdeen and Glasgow – Ted Brocklebank MSP, Shadow Minister for Culture, said:
“There was never any doubt that the Scottish Government’s summer cabinet tour last summer, taking in Dumfries, Inverness, Pitlochry and Skye, was a shameless exercise in self-promotion and nationalism. When you consider that there was a National Conversation event at each location, that much is only too clear. I discovered that the tour cost over £60,000 of taxpayers’ money and took almost 120 publicly funded officials around the country.
“Therefore it is disappointing that the Scottish Government is pressing ahead with another SNP Roadshow this year, with another Nationalist Conversation in every place they visit. What's more, there are five trips this year, compared to four last year. In these difficult economic times, swanning about Scotland in an exercise of self promotion and self congratulation is not good leadership and the SNP needs to think again.” | 
