The political life and times of John Swinney. A career which has cost the Scottish taxpayer over £5 million, to date. Controversies, including his mishandling of civil service issues, education policies, Smith Commission negotiations, misuse of the Moorov Doctrine, totalitarian education tactics, systemic education failures, complicity in Mark McDonald’s “political assassination,” refusal to release Hamilton Report details, and directing a controversial transgender policy for the SNHS, fuel criticism of his leadership and strategic judgment Evidence suggests he, as in his previous term as leader, steering the SNP towards governance with a gradualist approach to Scottish independence. – caltonjock

The political life and times of John Swinney. A career which has cost the Scottish taxpayer over £5 million, to date. Controversies, including his mishandling of civil service issues, education policies, Smith Commission negotiations, misuse of the Moorov Doctrine, totalitarian education tactics, systemic education failures, complicity in Mark McDonald’s “political assassination,” refusal to release Hamilton Report details, and directing a controversial transgender policy for the SNHS, fuel criticism of his leadership and strategic judgment Evidence suggests he, as in his previous term as leader, steering the SNP towards governance with a gradualist approach to Scottish independence.

John Swinney – The Scottish MSP who spent 20 years plotting against and destroying fundamentalist nationalists achieved his life’s ambition in leading a firmly committed gradualist SNP Government. But to where? Swinney was born in Edinburgh on 13 April 1964. He attended the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with an MA Honours degree in … Continue reading The political life and times of John Swinney. A career which has cost the Scottish taxpayer over £5 million, to date. Controversies, including his mishandling of civil service issues, education policies, Smith Commission negotiations, misuse of the Moorov Doctrine, totalitarian education tactics, systemic education failures, complicity in Mark McDonald’s “political assassination,” refusal to release Hamilton Report details, and directing a controversial transgender policy for the SNHS, fuel criticism of his leadership and strategic judgment Evidence suggests he, as in his previous term as leader, steering the SNP towards governance with a gradualist approach to Scottish independence.