BBC and STV news both reporting on the rubbish piling up in Edinburgh but studiously avoiding saying that Edinburgh has Labour/Tory administration, and of course Sarwar missing in action and Tories hiding – again.

The usual suspects in the media have headlines asking what the SNP government doing about this and sky-high utility prices knowing full well energy is a reserved power.

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But why should they know it is reserved when Liz Truss is just as ignorant?

The sewage being pumped into the sea in England is the best metaphor for the result of years of Tory government.

Winifred McCartney
Paisley

ANAS Sarwar ... come out, come out, wherever you are! This mess – both the rubbish piling up in Edinburgh and the bad feeling created by making the derisory pay offer – is down to Labour!

Thom Muir
via thenational.scot