More evidence of Nepotism and Failure of proper levels of Financial Governance from an SNP MSP which meant Scottish Taxpayers money being passed to the owners of a very profitable company for no reason reason apart from "favours" within an SNP clique.
Fiona Hyslop wasn't held properly responsible for this fiasco as it was investigated and essentially covered up by the SNP dominated comittee doing the investigation into it. In most cases this sort of failure should have meant the Minister having to resign ...but not within the SNP "Family".
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Spain Has Hit Back At The Scottish Government After It Backed A Catalonian Referendum.
Fiona Hyslop once again interfering in International matters that don't concern the Scottish Government and shown that her interference is flawed and factually wrong (again).
"The Scottish government's statement suggested that Catalonia's right to self-determination was "enshrined in the United Nations charter" – the set of rules which each member of the UN signs up to – but the spokesperson said Hyslop had misunderstood that section of the charter."
"Spain cannot apply the United Kingdom’s solution for the Scottish issue: our historical origins and our legal-political systems are different," said a spokesperson for Spain's ministry of foreign affairs. "Spain has a written constitution, submitted to the vote of all Spaniards in 1978 and approved by 87.7% (and 91.4% of the Catalonian voters), which makes the rules of the game clear.
"The Spanish constitution enshrines the Spanish nation as a political and social reality prior to the constitution itself. Therefore, national unity is the basis of our constitution. There are established procedures to amend the constitution. Therefore, in our legal framework, a referendum in the form proposed by the United Kingdom to Scotland would only be possible if the constitution were amended.
"The British case is an exception to an overwhelming majority of written constitutions that do not recognise this possibility. Recent judicial decisions in Germany and Italy have underlined the same constitutional approach as Spain. More concretely, according to Germany’s Supreme Court 'there is no room under the constitution for individual states to attempt to secede'."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/spain-has-hit-back-at-the-scottish-government-after-it?utm_term=.ltP0xKlN5Y#.afoQNp81Rw
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Scottish culture secretary accused over T in the Park subsidy
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/29/fyona-hyslop-accused-t-in-the-park-subsidy
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Scottish culture secretary accused of preposterous claims about BBC spending
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/03/scottish-culture-secretary-accused-of-preposterous-claims-about-bbc-spending
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This wasn't the first time Fiona Hyslops ability and suitablity to be Scottish Government minister had come into question as she had been previously sacked by Alex Salmond from her position as Education Minister due to her alleaged "incompetance" and yet here she is , still hanging on in the SNP "family" run Scottish Government once again as a highly paid MSP after a second Failure.
Alex Salmon has demoted one of his most criticised ministers and taken command of the campaign for an independence referendum in a bid to reassert his authority after one of his rockiest periods as first minister.
In a sudden switch of portfolios this morning, Salmond removed Fiona Hyslop from her post as education secretary after months of intensifying attacks on her competence and on Scottish National party education policy by opposition leaders.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/dec/01/scotland-alex-salmond-demotes-under-fire-inister
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And yet despite her incompetence the rest of the SNP first tried to defend her but bottled out following through on its own threats to all resign in support of her after all.
But all his approaches were rejected and Labour decided to call Mr Salmond’s bluff over his resignation threat by backing the Liberal Democrat motion.
