THE SNP have said the Tory party and Westminster government are in a state of "limbo" and that they are "distracted" by internal disputes.
Personal ambition is taking priority whilst the impact of Brexit continues to bite, the SNP have said.
This comes as the port of Dover was forced to declare a “critical incident” as it blamed “woefully inadequate” French border control staffing for queues of up to six hours.
The SNP’s International Trade Secretary Drew Hendry MP said: “With yet more delays at Dover we’ll see imports and exports rot in lorries and the cost of goods and services spiral even further out of control for businesses across the UK.
“And with public services crumpling under the pressure, and families and households left unable to buy the most basic goods, an additional £7.5 billion spent on a disastrous Brexit is the last thing Scotland needs.”
Hendry was referencing the news that the impact of the UK’s Brexit bill could increase by £7.5 billion.
Pro-rata this is the equivalent of £611 million for Scotland, an amount that could pay for:
- Training over 800 hospital consultants
- Training over 1200 GPs
- Training over 9500 police officers
- Training over 11,000 nurses
- Training over 18,000 undergraduate teachers
- Training nearly 74,000 postgraduate teachers
Hendry continued: “All this and yet the Tories are in a state of limbo, too distracted by their own personal ambitions, in a fight to replace one lame-duck Prime Minister with another, to pay any attention to the real issues facing this country.
“But we’ve seen that even without a leadership contest, we have wilful ignorance from the Tories over the Brexit state of play.
"It begs the question – with such economic devastation, the threat of a looming trade war, the UK’s diminished global status – exactly how much will it take until the Tories recognise their Brexit has been nothing but a disaster, how many more billions must we throw away down the drain while households here suffer.
“Scotland shouldn’t be made to endure this chaos much longer and luckily it won’t have to, with a referendum in 2023 giving Scots the opportunity to escape Brexit and ditch the dodgy Tories once and for all.”
