John Swinney blames “hyperinflation” for the SNP’s failure to keep its 2021 promise to freeze income tax rates and bands. John Swinney obviously doesn’t know what hyperinflation means.
First Minister John Swinney: "We now know the UK Government is useless. We know it from Mr Sarwar [who's] told us how the useless the UK prime minister is." #FMQs
Scotland now spends £293 every time someone injects heroin in Glasgow, and the SNP are calling it a success.
A year into this £2.3m‑a‑year “fix room”, drug deaths are rising, synthetic opioid deaths are at record levels, and only 3% of Glasgow’s 18,000 problem drug users even use the facility. That’s £4,000 per addict for a policy that hasn’t reduced deaths and hasn’t cleaned up the streets.
Locals report more needles and more anti‑social behaviour. The council denies it… then quietly installs extra needle bins. Says it all.
And despite having no evidence the pilot works, the SNP are already rolling out more sites, Edinburgh next, Dundee after that, while rejecting a Right to Recovery Bill that would have guaranteed rehab for every addict.
Millions to supervise illegal drug use. No money for mandatory treatment. Rising deaths. Rising costs. Falling accountability.
But aye, apparently this is “world‑leading”.
The devil was in the detail and in what the Finance Secretary didn't say. Weaker tax revenues drove most of the £480m cut in day-to-day spending relative to June plans, even after raiding one-off pots; capital was cut by £850m. Our initial analysis:
https://t.co/UqP9dl8Rj4
Don’t forget about 11 000 public sector job cuts on the horizon, yet we have to improve service delivery in all public services at the same time. This country is becoming a joke factory 🤡
watching the SNP position tax savings of less than £1 a week for lower paid Scots as some kind of heroic achievement makes you wonder if they actually do believe their electorate is “too stupid” to understand simple numbers
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