Austerity 2.0 not going well for Kid Starver. Combined with a phenomenal amount of donations and gifts for his whole cabinet, has any incoming government gone down so badly? Holyrood in 2026 a far from done deal you have to be saying today.

And Flynn is absolutely right, these are idealogically driven decisions - not economic. Literally the Tax Payers Alliance and IEA agree with these policies, there's the clue