The COVID-19 pandemic has, sadly, highlighted just how incompetent key SNP ministers have been, not least First Failure Sturgeon, both in preparing for and then coping with such an emergency. The SNP’s default secrecy, cover-up and blame-avoidance mentality has come to the fore, and – as ever – it is the most vulnerable in Scotland that are paying the price of repeated SNP failure. The SNP failed to prepare, and then it tried the Edinburgh conference cover-up.