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Click here to visit the Scotland home page for the latest news and sport Jackie Baillie has got it into her head that it’s her job to come to Holyrood and ask about health. Quite where Scottish Labour’s health spokeswoman got this notion from is a mystery, not least to John Swinney . The first minister spends half his time expressing astonishment at queries being put to him and the other half studiously not answering them. The man’s so sleekit he should come with his own ‘caution: slippery surface’ sign. Baillie, standing in for Anas Sarwar, noted that the SNP government’s latest NHS plan was the fifth in four years, adding: ‘I know that Biffa is suing the government, but that is not the kind of recycling that Scots are looking for.’ Booooo! Much like BBC Scotland’s comedy output, this is no laughing matter. There are patients across the country who’ve been waiting for years to recover and get back on their feet, a pligh...