SLEEKIT SUNAK OFFERS SCOTLAND “CRUMBS FROM THE WESTMINSTER TABLE”
ALBA Westminster Leader Neale Hanvey MP said:
“Behind the battery of statistics and promises of billions the hard reality is that this is the Chancellor who has withdrawn £20 a week from the hardest pressed families in the country – removing £1,040 a year from hard pressed household budgets
“He took away the Universal Credit uplift from 6 million people and restored it to 2 million people. What about the remaining four million people? He is giving away with one hand and taking it back with two
“Millions of people will look at the claimed success of this cheapskate Chancellor and wonder why their pockets have been picked just when they are up against it. Where is the support for families facing energy price hikes? Where is the support for small businesses struggling to survive after Covid? Where is the fiscal stimulus to create the tens of thousands of new green jobs our economy needs?
“The Chancellor has the cheek to claim it is a budget for the whole country, and boast about funding projects in Scotland, just one week after sinking hopes of leading carbon capture revolution and all that it means to Scotland’s green industrial future. He then sinks more millions into offshore wind development in Teeside. Not for the first time a Tory Chancellor intends that the jobs benefit of Scotland’s offshore energy resources impacts in England.
“Sleekit Sunak ransacks Scottish resources and then asks us to be grateful for crumbs from the Westminster table. Only independence will unlock Scotland’s wealth for Scotland’s people”
I totally agree with Neale.
To make Scotland a fairer, more equal society we need the powers of an independent country. We need our government to develop a fair tax system, with no tax loopholes and no tax havens, that doesn’t impact ordinary people more than billionaires.
I wonder if the Scottish Government have civil servants working on that…
For Fecks Sake and how do you think any Scottish Government could stop “Tax Havens” which are operated by Banks outside the UK based in Foreign Countries , do you seriously think Scotland could stop anyone opening a bank account outside of Scotland ? Hilarious stuff ps try and learn about Offfshore Accounts because its clear that you don’t have a Scooby Doo !!! https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802253/No_safe_havens_report_2019.pdf
What a dullard if you had any brains you would have known that Janice was referring to any bank tradingin an independent Scotland. Do read before commenting. Where do they find you lot? Certainly not at Oxbridge!
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He’s a true member of his Party. They have perfected the telling of lies while concealing the truth.
“He took away the Universal Credit uplift from 6 million people and restored it to 2 million people. What about the remaining four million people? He is giving away with one hand and taking it back with two”
Not only that, Westminster/ Sunak bypasses Holyrood and directly funds projects that Holyrood is meant to deal with.
Time isn’t on our side.
https://archive.md/boHRW
Westminster can spend RUK money which wasn’t raised from Scottish Taxpayers in anyway it wants , what is it you are afraid of ? Is it the fact that people might understand Scotland is getting more back from being in the UK than what we could have if Independent ? Why are you afraid of that ? Don’t you think most Scots are aware of that and are happy to vote to stand on their own two feet ?
It contravenes the Scotland Act as well as the Treaty of Union.