Very Creative.

Mr Smith feels he must ask the obvious question which is why if Creative Scotland could be established without requiring legislation the Scottish Government had to waste it's time and that of the Scottish Parliament by trying to do it using its legislative powers, rather than by ... er .. just setting it up?

"Creative Scotland, the proposed new cultural funding body, could be established without the passing of a bill through parliament, it was claimed yesterday. Plans to establish the successor to the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen ended in disarray this week as the Culture Bill, drafted to establish the body, was surprisingly voted down in the Scottish Parliament."

Lost.

The SNP Scottish Government has lost the occasional vote before, but never an entire piece of legislation which by political standards is rather careless.

"THE Scottish Government was tonight dealt a humiliating public blow when its plans for a new national arts body collapsed in ruins. Ministers lost a crunch vote on the financial resolution of the Creative Scotland Bill in Parliament after Labour complained they had been misled over the financial implications of the Bill."

Sloppy. Mr Smith thinks that Bruce Crawford MSP, the SNP's Business Manager will be carrying out the autopsy as we post.