Posted on March 5, 2009 by norrie
It is looking very likely that the SNP’s manifesto pledge to hold a referendum on independence will be rejected today by a coalition of the Labour Party, Conservatives and Liberals. The Labour Party have a debate today entitled Scottish government failure, scheduled to take place sometime shortly after 9.15 am. I have no [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2009 by norrie
John Swinney the finance secretary today finally had to admit defeat and climb down from the introduction of a local income tax designed to replace the council tax. It has been very obvious for some time that there was no consensus at Holyrood for the local tax and this will be seen as a major [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2009 by norrie
Margo MacDonald wanted £3.5 million for Edinburgh, she got it.
Tories wanted £60 million over 3 years for city centre regeneration they got £60 million lump sum.
Lib Dem’s wanted a 2p cut in income tax, they got a promise from the SNP to approach the Calman Commission about giving Holyrood the right to borrow.
Labour wanted 23,400 [...]
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