Russell Findlay has branded the SNP’s first 100 days in government a “catalogue of failure”, as new analysis exposes broken promises, spiralling crime and continued pressure on Scotland’s public services.
The Scottish Conservative leader said John Swinney’s government had spent its first 100 days proving that SNP ministers were more interested in headline-grabbing announcements than delivering for the people of Scotland.
From a health service with more than 770,000 patients waiting for treatment to record levels of violent crime, the SNP has failed to tackle the problems facing families across the country.
The First Minister has also broken a string of election promises, while taxpayers are being left to pick up the bill for government waste and poor financial management.
Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay MSP said: "John Swinney's SNP has had 100 days to show Scots that they've changed. But instead, it's more of the same gimmicks, broken promises and incompetence.
"At the very start of the new parliament, the first thing Swinney put on the agenda was the SNP's obsession with breaking up our country.
"For 100 days he's failed to deliver, with more than 770,000 Scots now stuck on NHS waiting lists. Prisoners are being set free early and the police are at breaking point, while violent crime is surging.
"SNP pledges on bus fares, critical public service reform and support for island communities have already fallen by the wayside.
"And we've heard nothing about how they intend to deliver or pay for gimmick policies like free schoolbags and supermarket price-fixing.
“Meanwhile, hard-working taxpayers are forced to foot the bill for monumental SNP waste and their out-of-control benefits bill.
"It is shocking that Swinney's complacent gang of incompetents have no plan to plug the looming £5 billion hole in Scotland’s public finances.
“The Scottish Conservatives will continue holding this incompetent government to account and offer the serious and common-sense alternative that Scotland needs.”