Yakking for Argyll

The row over the Scottish Government placing contracts in Asia for the production of Saltires has been illuminating. Makes you realise that the SNP is the only party which can never place contracts of any kind outside the country if there is a native company capable of delivering.

The clarifier here was that it was Saltires. You just knew at once that the SNP, by definition, is about growing Scotland and Scottish businesses and cannot ever go seeking the cheap deal in low wage economies.

What it has to do is work to get Scottish public sector tenders to come in at realistic prices rather than the feather-bedded inflationary ones that have tended to be the norm in this sphere. No bad thing.