The SNP – all talk and no do
Proclamations of Scotland being the first country to adopt community wealth-building are extremely premature. CRAIG ANDERSON of CWU Scotland explains
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IT SEEMS for everyone outside of Scotland, the country still appears to be some form of progressive utopia that is putting England’s political leaders to shame. For all of us living in Scotland, we wish the utopia were true.
A blog posted by Novara Media, proclaiming Scotland to have better public services and lower council tax, was rightly met with amusement across the Scottish left.
It came only a week after the Scottish government published its Spending Review which set out plans to cut anywhere between 17,000 and 40,000 public-sector jobs over the next three years, with local councils again set to bear the brunt of the cuts.
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