Dear All
It seems that Johann Lamont has decided to attack the rich.
In this case; Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and, her
husband Peter Murrell.
Ms Sturgeon enjoys a household income of more than £200,000,
Johann Lamont told MSPs today.
To be fair that is only because the SNP has recently paid Ms.
Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell an obscene 47% pay rise, reported by Tom
Gordon of Herald Scotland
47% pay rise in a time of austerity, patently we are all in
this together!
And of course both Ms. Sturgeon and her excessively wealthy
husband enjoy a council tax freeze.
The Labour leader then asked why wealthy people like this
should get benefits like free prescription charges.
Well, that is just a bonus of trying to buy the electorate
which parties do in their manifestos.
Labour pulled a similar trick in their council manifesto
offering free wifi to Glaswegians.
Free wifi is a great carrot, and you would have to be mental
not to vote for that!
Which Glaswegians did overwhelmingly!
A clearly rattled Ms Sturgeon fought back by saying during
First Ministers Questions at Holyrood:
“If Johann Lamont wants to make that the dividing line in
Scottish politics, I only have one thing to say – bring it on.”
Do you remember the last person to do the “bring it on”
line?
Wendy Alexander, after she uttered that, it was all downhill
for her.
At the bottom of the hill was an exit from politics.
Ms Sturgeon of 200k a year household fame who is standing in
for Alex Salmond on his latest freebie in the US
“There’s lots of things you can call that kind of approach
from Labour – shambolic is the name that immediately springs to my mind. Let me
tell Johann Lamont something for free – it’s not brave and it’s certainly not
honest. This Government will put forward balanced Budgets”.
Actually her utterance wasn’t ‘free’ because she was doing
it in Holyrood which she is paid for.
In continuing her attack Lamont said:
“Is it fair that the Sturgeon household on £200,000 a year
gets universal benefits when families on average earnings pay more for
childcare than they do for their mortgage?”
200k a year and Nicola Sturgeon and her husband get a council
tax freeze and free prescriptions!
I don’t have a problem with Ms. Sturgeon and her husband
grabbing as much as possible although it may open the eyes of those who do SNP activism
for free.
They say if you can't have the popularity you might has well
have the money, I think the numbers who publicly boo her may have an influx
into their ranks.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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