Edinburgh Trams was firmly at the feet of the Labour controlled council rather than central government
Yes I know that the tram saga was an Edinburgh Council cluster.. and that it was labour controlled at the time...
However the point I was making was that the devolution process was so flawed that it spread out across the entire Scottish public society.. (which includes council bodies of whatever hue..) and has underpinned a swath of feckwittery unparalleled in recent history. Instead of a culture of fiscal probity, professional competence and proven performance we have crackpot theory, nursery level politics and an ability to waste resources that is truly eyewatering.
The political colouring of the individuals involved are of little consequence in reality. The current SNP is a badly thought out bandwaggon which has picked up momentum because of the conditions that have allowed it to exist. What we have done is connected a source of power to a grouping that should never have come into existence!
It is like someone handed Extinction Rebellion the keys to the treasury, the home office and the nuclear deterrent! It is that stupid!
The Trams happened because Edinburgh Council was allowed to bypass a shedload of checks and balances that would have come from the Scottish Office (when that was run by grownups!). Holyrood should have stopped it, but they were far too interested in their own shagfest at the other end of the Royal Mile...!