One rule for you, one rule for me.

There is strange logic at times from Scotland’s First Minister.  When it was her government setting up Police Scotland, it was all about, cutting back the number of chief constables to make a more efficient and effective service.

Now it’s the UK government cutting back the number of HMRC offices, she’s on the march already.  She said the announcement on office closures "appeared to put significant numbers of jobs in Scotland at risk".  She also stated  she would be seeking urgent talks with the UK government to discuss the matter. 

So with the police, it is ok, because she is doing it.  With the tax office it is not ok, because it's the baddies at Westminster once again doing cuts.

It’s interesting the justification that has been put forward for the HMRC changes.  They rather closely mirror the reasons Ms Sturgeon gave for setting up a unified police service in Scotland.  HMRC's chief executive Lin Homer said: "HMRC has too many expensive, isolated and outdated offices. This makes it difficult for us to collaborate, modernise our ways of working, and make the changes we need to transform our service to customers and clamp down further on the minority who try to cheat the system."

But here is the odd thing.  You would have thought that Ms Sturgeon would have come out and said, brilliant, we can save the taxpayer money by doing it more efficiently and at less cost.  But no, once again she thinks that governments are a taxpayer funded job creation agency.