Dear All
For some time I have been saying that the
Scottish National Party is anti working class, the SNP is run as a party within
a party.
A chicken has come home to roost as Alex
Salmond has said that the 13,000 rise in female unemployment was encouraging.
If you are one of the 13,000 women who have
lost their job, does this fill you with “hope”?
Political parties have treated this
statement by Salmond with contempt and scorn, Salmond is a First Minister for
rich people, poor people he managed to dupe at the 2011 election into voting
for him.
Any ordinary working class person can
clearly see including his political rivals that he isn’t living in the real
world.
In his padded Bute House residence, he
enjoys a luxury lifestyle and chauffeur driven car, plus all the other perks as
First Minister.
For Salmond the choice is never about ‘heat
or eat’, but rather whether or not to have a second helping of food stacked on
his plate.
Salmond was never one of us.
His bizarre claim of how wonderful it is
that women are being put out of a job was made during a grilling in front of the
assembled heads of every Holyrood committee on his plans for government.
Labour MSP Margaret McCulloch, convener of
the equal opportunities committee asked him to explain:
“Why has there been such a dramatic rise in
unemployment for women, and why is it so peculiar to Scotland?”
Salmond replied:
“The way you should judge that is to look
at participation in the workforce. The best contrast is with Northern Ireland,
which has the lowest level of female unemployment across the UK but by some
distance, and certainly by a huge distance from Scotland, also the lowest level
of women in work participating in the workforce. Scotland has the highest
participation rate and the highest employment rate of women in the workforce.
Obviously we want to see unemployment decline as much as possible, but the fact
that more women are no longer economically inactive is a good thing and an
encouraging sign.”
Being made unemployed is a “good thing and
an encouraging sign.”
When you don’t have money to pay the bills
is that supposed to be an encouraging sign as well?
Salmond added:
“Look at employment figures for women and
don’t be too discouraged by the trends at the moment. What has happened in
female employment is that there has been a sharp decline in inactivity, that’s
people not presenting for work or looking for work. We’ve got more percentage
of women in work than England, Wales or Northern Ireland so it’s important to look at labour market trends. Why do people come out of inactivity
into activity? They come out because they are encouraged by the view that they
might find employment. If people think there is no hope or little prospect of
getting employment, then they will stay in inactivity. They’re not recorded in
the unemployment stats because they are not looking for work, so I think it’s
important that we look at employment figures in Scotland as being one of the
criteria when we assess how equal we are becoming as a society in terms of
employment.”
Scots Labour MSP Jenny Marra said:
“Only Alex Salmond can believe that more
women signing-on is an ‘encouraging sign’. Only in the unique world of the
First Minister can more women being on the dole, or under-employed, or earning
less than the living wage be seen as sign of ‘hope’. Women across Scotland will
be astonished at the complacency of the First Minister who simply doesn’t
understand what it is like to struggle to get on.”
Alex Salmond is a First Minister for the
rich, he gives rich people council tax freezes, he gives rich people free
prescriptions and he thinks working class Scottish women thrown on the
scrapheap is a “good thing and an encouraging sign.”
Bam!
If you want to save Scotland, then Vote No to independence, Alex Salmond has lost the plot, and you don't invest in a collapsing market, his stock just went through the floor.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
1 comment:
You are talking pish and you know it!
You also know that you are Anti Scottish Independence
no wonder there is no comments and comment moderation has been set
Pathetic and Weak!
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