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Budget crisis reveals failure to run Scotland seriously
In crashing the budget, the SNP has created the worst crisis in recent Scottish history. It will damage social policy in the way Margaret Thatcher damaged industrial policy 40 years ago. The blame lies with a cabinet which gambled on the country being too …