At the Scottish Parliament today, Scotland’s hapless Education Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop got a bit of a roasting from MSPs, including LibDem Margaret Smith MSP, about her abject failure to cut primary school class sizes in P1 to P3 to 18.Hyslop’s response? She blames the councils, the recession, budget cuts … actually everybody but the SNP and herself.
The reality is that the SNP promised something it could not deliver. The policy has failed to be funded by the SNP government and the only person Fiona Hyslop should blame is Fiona Hyslop - the least effective Education Minister since devolution.