I’ve never tried a three-point turn on the A96 between Inverness and Aberdeen because it’s dangerous enough just driving in a straight line most of the time.

But Scotland’s Finance Secretary Shona Robison attempted one the other day for MSPs.

She had no choice if she was to avoid making a disaster even worse, but she left behind the debris of a political car crash.

So, just like someone failing their driving test, she stalled at a critical moment, lurched forward at the wrong angle and then pulled back alarmingly; someone eventually slammed on the brakes to put her out of her misery.

As we all know, she was at the helm when the Scottish Government’s budget announcement crashed on the rocks after omitting vital road improvements around our communities by mistake.

I wish she were keeping track of the amount I spend on coffee rather than my wife.

SNP party bosses and flunkies who were supposed to be paying attention failed to notice that the person who holds Scottish purse strings said she was only committed to a few bits and bobs along the notorious A96 road.

When nothing short of the Holy Grail of full dualling along the near-100 miles or so of the route would do for the long-suffering........

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