The INDEPENDENT BUDGET REVIEW was set up by the Scottish Government to consider options for future public expenditure. Let's look at some of the main points:
- A cut in jobs by up to 60,000 by 2014
- A 2 year pay freeze and a review of pension arrangements
- No overriding presumption of protection for any services
- Council tax freeze discontinued
- All free and subsidised services in the Health Service including NHS eye examinations, personal and nursing care, reduction in prescription charges and concessionary travel should be curtailed.
- Scottish Water should be privatised
- Higher education should no longer be free
Now all these might sound like severe but necessary recommendations to pay for LABOUR'S FINANCIAL MESS, with the economy in it's worst state since the 2nd World War. But consider this. Scotland actually produces more oil than QATAR. Scotland should be a rich country. We have just discovered a new oil field, the CATCHER, which has reserves of 360 million barrels about 10 times the normal size of any Field discovered so far. That is without the oil reserves in the Clyde and off the west coast which so far lay untapped.
But what do the SNP Government do. They play into the Unionists' hands by pissing about with DEVOLUTION and whether we want a CALMAN or CALMAN PLUS, which anyone with any sense can see is a UNIONIST trap which will have Scotland keeping the UK economy afloat again, just as it has done since the 70s. Meanwhile the people of Scotland will keep on voting Labour, falling further into the mire of poverty. The Unionists are very happy to laugh at Alex Salmond's somewhat rash comments about the ARC OF PROSPERITY, before Labour's recession, but one of the countries in the Arc, was NORWAY, a country more akin to Scotland due to their oil wealth. There's no recession in Norway. Their old people don't freeze to death in the winter like they do here, despite it being colder and of course they had control of their own banks which weren't allowed to make risky investment decisions in foreign countries.
The SNP should be shouting the INDEPENDENCE MESSAGE from the rooftops, instead of adopting this gradual process to full fiscal powers. Many Independence supporters are getting fed up with this approach and instead of seizing the moment, if they are not very careful, it could lead to schisms amongst the Independence movement, when this should be the moment to press ahead to FULL INDEPENDENCE or at least FULL FISCAL CONTROL, with a shared agreement with England over things like defence. A country with Scotland's wealth should be investing in it's infrastructure and people, not MAKING CUTS!
Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, managed to put in an appearance at Labour's spring conference today after travelling up from Peterborough, where he appeared at another conference. (Who the fuck's running the country)? He praised the party's Holyrood leader Iain Gray, describing him as one of the "architects of Labour's fightback in Scotland". Mr Brown made a jibe at the SNP First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, saying Mr Gray's efforts at Holyrood had "ensured that the Salmond season is well and truly over".
The one-eyed twat has obviously lost it altogether if he thinks that fucker Gray is an effective leader and is ANY MATCH for Alex Salmond! He would be hard pushed to run an ice-cream van, never mind a RAGTAG POLITICAL PARTY!
Brown also said "We will work together to implement, following the Calman report, the next stage of devolution to the Scottish Parliament." That could see Holyrood get more powers over drink driving, speed limits and air weapons.
Fuck me, HAUD ME BACK! Our own control over speed limits and air guns. Whoopydoo!
P.S. Looking at the photo above, I think the Grayman could be in the first grips of Alcoholism, going by his ruddy face.
THE BOY DAVID-THE SMILING MILLIONAIRE ASSASSIN
David Cameron has virtually ruled out one of the key recommendations of the Calman Commission by distancing himself from the proposal to give the Scottish Parliament immediate powers to borrow cash for big construction projects.
The Conservative leader indicated in a radio interview yesterday that if the Tories come to power next year, they would find it “difficult” to grant Holyrood the power to borrow money - as the Commission on improving Scottish devolution proposed.So, not even in power yet and already he and his FAT FRUMP GOLDIE are picking fights with the legitimate GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND.The sooner we become INDEPENDENT and can be IN CONTROL of our OWN AFFAIRS, THE BETTER! THIS HALF-WAY HOUSE IS HOPELESS!
