The SNP’s failures in their governance of Scotland are vast and many and none more so than their disregard for the victims of drug addiction. As the campaign group, Faces and Voices of Recovery (FAVOR) have been telling them for several years now, “You keep talking; we keep dying”.

Their indifference to the plight of drug victims, who are among the most marginalised people in society, borders on outright sadism. Annemarie Ward, CEO of FAVOR captured this when she exposed the lengths to which the SNP will go to escape its responsibility for turning Scotland into the drug deaths capital of Europe.

“The public won’t see the next drug death spike until after the election,” she wrote last month. “That’s not just bad timing; it’s political convenience. Between December 2024 and February 2025, Scotland saw a 17% rise in suspected drug deaths. But because the official annual stats only cover January to December, this spike won’t appear in the 2024 figures, the ones published before the Holyrood election in May, 2026.”

The SNP have consistently refused to back FAVOR’s Right to Recovery Bill, which seeks to provide proper rehab facilities for drug addicts. Instead, it maintains a multi-million-pound gravy train comprising a handful of supine organisations who specialise in kicking the can further down the road in exchange for large salaries.

It’s consistent with the SNP’s deep loathing of working-class communities. Concealing Scotland’s drugs death tally until after you’ve won an election is a new level of amoral.

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