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You can't
believe anything that Mr Salmond tells us. Indeed, you can't even believe
what he says he's going to tell us.
The complaint in a "letter to the editor" suggests Mr
Salmond did not mention the NHS in his remarks at Radio City Kilbirnie.
To: The Editor
The letters from your Scottish Nationalist correspondents,
Messrs Merry and Gibson, inadvertently confirm what I have long believed -
that you can't believe anything that their leader, Mr Salmond, tells us.
Indeed, you can't even believe what he says he's going to tell us.
Messrs Merry and Gibson
complain that I criticised Mr Salmond's attack on the National Health
Service's record when he did not, in fact, mention the NHS in the course of
his remarks at Radio City, Kilbirnie, recently. Clearly, they are unaware of
the press release issued by Mr Salmond on the day of his visit which
described what he "will say at a public meeting in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire,
tonight".
In the version of this press release issued by the Press Association, Mr
Salmond spoke about nothing other than the National Health Service, in order
to denounce the record of the Scottish Executive over the past few years .In
contrast, I believe that the record of our NHS in North Ayrshire is very
good, including the new investments that I referred to. So naturally, I
defended the reputation of the NHS against this unwarranted, ill-researched
attack.
If Messrs Merry and Gibson have a complaint about Mr Salmond not saying what
his press release said he was going to say, they should take it up with him
rather than with me. In the meantime, I will get on with the serious
business of working with others to improve NHS provision and all the other
services for which the Scottish Executive is responsible, in the interests
of my constituents.
Yours sincerely
Allan Wilson MSP
Cunninghame North
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