Andrew Grimes: "It also enables the SNP’s tight-fisted Scottish parliament to reduce its wages bill on ironwork painters by at least 50 per cent."
Perhaps, if other politicians - past and present - counted the bawbees as assiduously as Alex Salmond, the UK wouldn't be in the mess it is.
Despite stringent safety measures, painting/maintaing the bridge is a dangerous task. If the development by Leigh Paints means there is less risk to life, surely the introduction of such treatments is to be welcomed - despite the loss of jobs.
(Are you now the spokesperson for the Forth Bridge Painters' Union?)
Perhaps, if other politicians - past and present - counted the bawbees as assiduously as Alex Salmond, the UK wouldn't be in the mess it is.
Despite stringent safety measures, painting/maintaing the bridge is a dangerous task. If the development by Leigh Paints means there is less risk to life, surely the introduction of such treatments is to be welcomed - despite the loss of jobs.
(Are you now the spokesperson for the Forth Bridge Painters' Union?)