Dear All
The SNP is the greatest barrier at present to poor working class
Scots, the Champagne Nationalists have embraced the idea of middle class
welfare-ism to buy the vote, the poor are thrown to the dogs.
Nicola Sturgeon's poverty advisor is a joke, why Naomi
Eisenstadt wishes to stay in the job is beyond me, she was hired by Sturgeon to
scrutinise Scottish Government policies and come up with new ways of reducing
inequality.
Inequality is growing between the rich and poor, not just
from a financial point of view but right across the board.
Education seen as a route out of poverty has been
drastically cut by the SNP especially the college sector, a traditional route
for young working class people. As to getting into Universities, people from
the lowest financial backgrounds struggle to get in the door.
You could do a joke here, what do you call a working class
person at University…… a cleaner.
University in the main is for the rich, run by the rich,
staffed by the rich to help the rich, don’t think because you read a story
about a working class young person making it into the Herald saying that they
want to do medicine; that change is going on.
Please don’t delude yourself.
Naomi Eisenstadt wants fuel poverty programmes to be
targeted at helping the poor but the SNP don’t, the Scottish Government has ‘no
plans’ to strip the £300 a year handed out to wealthy pensioners. Is it wrong
that wealthy pensioners get £300 a year when they are better off?
Yes!
But what this actually shows is that the SNP do not embrace
what has been described as the ‘new politics’, they are sticking with the old
failed policies that seen the collapse of other political parties fortunes in
Scotland.
Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t want to rock the boat and lose
votes, in the main neither do most parties which is why nothing gets done for
the poor.
If you ask an SNP punter for a progressive policy
voluntarily put in place, they can’t tell you one, instead they cite free
prescriptions, and the council tax freeze as stock answers. The poor get
nothing unless it is also given to the rich.
Do you think the SNP is a centre left party?
It isn’t, the SNP is a centre right party with a warped
viewed because everything is centred round their independence fights.
Willie Rennie, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, said
the rejection of Ms Eisenstadt's position showed that the SNP "talk big
but act small" on poverty.
This is actually a fair comment, isn’t surprising that in
opposition a political party can come up with the right solutions which one
they enter power they then ignore.
Rennie added:
"Days after receiving a report from an independent
expert on alleviating poverty in Scotland, the SNP are set to reject her
recommendations out of hand. The SNP told us they needed power over welfare and
benefits to make Scotland fairer but yet again it seems they have no plans to
use the powers coming to Holyrood”.
Independence by stealth, the SNP have no plans to make
things better for poor people in Scotland, if they did, people would have no
reason to want to change their circumstances, so the SNP’s interest isn’t in
helping people, it is to keep people poor and fuel grievance and lay the blame
at Westminster.
Rennie also said:
"For those at the bottom, the winter fuel allowance is
the difference between being able to heat their homes or not but for many
wealthier pensioners it is simply a nice little bonus to be spent on other
things. There is a genuine debate to be had over whether this cash could be
better spent elsewhere but the SNP don’t want to hear it."
Many people at the bottom of society know about fuel
poverty, it means staying in a freezing cold flat, unable to turn the heating
on because you are worried that you will not be able to find the money to pay
the bills.
Years ago, I wrote on the blog, the benefits of going to
prison compared to being unemployed.
It costs society about £42k a year to lock you up but just
look what you can access, the downside, no swimming pool, no female
companionship and the social class may not be to your taste.
The Lib Dems say they will campaign in May for taking away
the £300 from wealthy people, they lib Dems have suffered electorally due to
Nick Clegg being a liar; he sunk the entire party in 2010. 2015, the Lib Dems
paid the price for it, 8 seats at Westminster with one in Scotland.
If you make a promise then keep your promise!
The Scottish Labour Party’s position needs to be the same as
the Lib Dems, but it appears they haven’t proposed changes to the eligibility
criteria.
Scottish Labour had the worse result in 2015 in about 100
years, whose fault was that, it was their fault, the Labour Party needs new
vision; the questions are; who is going to give it and what that vision will
be.
If the party wishes to stick to ‘carping on the side lines’
thinking this will help them, they will get a re-run of the bitter defeat of
2015, in politics you have to choose a side.
Trying to be all things to all people usually means being
relevant to none.
A spokesman for Scottish Labour said:
"First they admitted they were considering cuts; then
they denied it when the public got wind of it. Now their own poverty advisor
has recommended it be cut and yet again the government has had to deny it. It's
an absolute mess."
Here is a policy, ‘vote for me because I complain about how
crap the other side is…… but I don’t want to change things’.
A spokeswoman for the Scottish Government said:
"Scottish Ministers have made it clear that they do not
plan to cut or means-test winter fuel payments when the relevant powers are
devolved. We are currently looking at how we can best use the limited devolved
powers we are getting and to see if there are any areas where benefits can be
used more effectively. The Scottish and UK Governments need to reach agreement
on the fiscal framework and the extent of devolved powers in the Scotland Bill
before we can make any decisions."
What does this mean?
Short version is ‘fuck the poor’.
So, come May 2016, who will you vote for?
Will your vote go to the least objectionable, will it be
tribal, will you try tactical voting, will you just sit at home and not bother?
Decisions, decisions, decisions!
One thing is certain; no one is winning any political
arguments because no one is willing to change their policies to help the
poorest in society.
Quite simply this country deserves better.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
5 comments:
Spot on George.
The SNP want everyone to suffer, blame Westminster, then get independence at any cost. Problem is, there are idiots out there who support this view, not understanding at all how economics work.
I have no intention of voting SNP again, not while these clowns are in charge. Regardless of the fact they are likely to have a majority again, I will still check out the second party in my area and vote for them twice.
It seems as well that the Westminster 56/54 (whatever) are starting to piss off the Holyrood faithful.
Also - read somewhere that Norway is now eating into it's oil fund, as it does not have the breadth of economy to change. Any truth in that?
"Also - read somewhere that Norway is now eating into it's oil fund, as it does not have the breadth of economy to change. Any truth in that?"
Yes there is truth to that.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-06/norway-budget-proposes-boosting-oil-spending-by-14-nrk-says
"Norway to Start Withdrawals From Oil Fund to Plug Deficits"
Unfortunatley George while a majority continue to vote SNP - this country deserves all it gets!
This is going to take a long time to get rid of these clowns George but a concerted attack on the bribes to those better off and a policy to alleviate it would be a help.
Moray Council's proposal (extreme as it is) to raise council tax is about to go to hell. It appears that the Scottish Government is going to lynch any local authority that dares to raise council tax. The initial signs are that funding for health and education will be removed.
Meanwhile, hundreds more jobs being shed with the news about Texas.
Seems everything is going to shit under the SNP.
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