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Letters: The SNP can't blame Thatcher for Scotland's many ills

NOW we know what happened. Margaret Thatcher’s time as Prime Minister ended in 1990 and she died in 2013. Yet John Swinney has blamed her for the mess in which Scotland now finds itself in 2024 (‘Swinney: Scotland is still suffering from Margaret Thatcher era’, June 27). It must have been the spirit of the Iron Lady that induced the ferries fiasco – perhaps by undue influence on the ministers who made the catastrophically wrong decisions.  She must also have forced the then First Minister to sign up to the Bifab disaster, and somehow prevent the A9 being dualled. Did she also exert spiritual pressure on SNP ministers to leave hundreds of millions of EU money allocated to Scotland unspent? Did she force fake embassies upon us at horrendous cost?  Whatever else she did, she is still eternally active and living in the minds of even the present SNP leaders. If the SNP get hammered on Thursday, will that be all her fault also?  Alexander McKay, Edinburgh.