Abolish the Scottish Parliament and Government
Abolish the Scottish Parliament and Government for the duration of the crisis.
Why the contribution is important
It would make greater sense if there was one nationwide decision-making body comprised of the best people in the UK, chosen from a far deeper talent pool, rather than Scottish Government's separate approach which is being cobbled together by people who appear not to be epidemiologists/bacteriologists, and is contributing to confusion.
This will also get rid of the duplication of effort in the UK, which I, as one of the few private sector income tax payers in Scotland, hate.
The immediate savings from such a move can be ploughed straight into PPE equipment for the NHS and a supply of facemasks for the population.
(As a side benefit, liquidating the Scottish Parliament and going back to the pre-1999 status quo would give our MPs something to do - at present all 59 of them have virtually no authentic case work - that work having been hived off to MSPs - and it is, frankly, a national scandal that we still employ so many of them when they are vastly under-employed compared to their English colleagues.)
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