Commenting after the SNP’s strategy vote at their conference, Scottish Labour Constitution spokesperson Neil Bibby MSP said:“One person dies from a drug overdose almost every seven hours in Scotland, one in six Scots is on an NHS waiting list, violence is rising in our schools, and a housing emergency is causing misery for families across the country — yet the SNP has no answers.
“Instead, they waste their time fighting among themselves over the constitution rather than focus on fixing Scotland’s public services.
“The SNP is hopelessly out of touch while services across Scotland are at breaking point.
“Labour delivered an extra £5.2 billion for Scotland’s public services, but no one can see what the SNP has done with that money.
“People deserve better than this tired, incompetent government that will put its own obsession with division before Scotland.
“Next year’s election is the chance to remove the SNP from power and elect a Scottish Labour government that will end the chaos and take Scotland in a new direction.”