Understandably, Alex Salmond and his administration have had much to say recently about the democratic mandate and the will of the people but in the case of a new mass transit system for the nation's capital, the SNP has been caught on the wrong side of the argument. It is true that the Nationalists achieved their wafer-thin majority on the back of a manifesto that included major road and rail investment in the north of Scotland. To pay for it, the party proposed to scrap Edinburgh's tram scheme and the capital's airport rail link, saving a notional £1.1bn. An announcement to this effect is expected shortly.
Understandably, Alex Salmond and his administration have had much to say recently about the democratic mandate and the will of the people but in the case of a new mass transit system for the nation's capital, the SNP has been caught on the wrong side of the argument.
