You cannot lay the blame for the collapsing schools at Nicola's door as they were commissioned and built by Labour controlled Edinburgh City Council under PFI long before Nicola became first minister. There has been controversy over the award of the contracts ever since with suspicions of dirty dealings to secure them. The anger is directed at the contractors who built them for their shoddy workmanship and the amount of money paid annually by the city council to rent the buildings which they will never own.
I tend not to rely on news from the BBC or major Newspapers and I was certainly aware of Nicola's trade trip to China before she went. Not her fault if the MSM did not cover it until afterwards, when they had added their own SNP BAD slant. This is not unusual - how many of you have been aware of the sterling work done by the Scottish Government (especially Fergus Ewing) in rescuing the remnants of the steel industry in Scotland? or the deal they facilitated last year to save the last privately owned shipyard.
The use of Chinese Steel in the construction of the new Queensferry Crossing has already been done to death in the media in spite of the simple explanation that no steel plant in the UK is capable of producing steel of the required strength. Never a mention of the fact that said bridge is nearly finished - on time and under budget or that it has been funded entirely from the Scottish Governments budget with no input from the Westminster Government, unlike HSR, London Sewers etc. funded by taxpayers from across the UK.
