Community councils get a whole £200 more a year, Lesley, i.e. £600. The community council in my area has to spend £400 a year for somewhere to meet, leaving £200 for everything else.
As pointed out on Two Davies yesterday, Mr. Swinney has replaced the party manifesto pledge for independence with his own choice of ending child poverty. No one argues that child poverty is a worthwhile policy to work on but the problem is that SNP members were elected on the basis of their publicised manifesto of independence and just because Mr. Swinney is a replacement leader doesn't change that the SNP promised independence from Sturgeon onward - he can't change that just to suit himself and any political leader who claims that they support democracy has to either act in support of democracy by following what the public voted for or step down. Such a shame that the SNP has allowed its party to fall to such levels.
On the Grenfell comparative to Scotland - Scottish building regs are more stringent, building control do not get bypassed, fire brigade do not get bypassed, the Contractor is not allowed to self-certify his own work, and crucially there has been no culture of "cut the red tape", all of which was at the root of the Grenfell disaster. Grenfell was inspected after the disaster by the cladding system designer, who found ample evidence the design had not been followed. missing fire-breaks for one - It was a disaster waiting to happen. - On Pat's point over Mark Griffin - It's political chicanery - There is no relationship between low draw down of funds and not looking at the problem - You don't find a problem, there is no need to fix it.
There us no problem with being in the Union so there is no need to "fix" it with independence. Just look at Scottish government own figures in GERS reports since 2014 referendum. Last year 10.4 % fiscal deficit compared to 4.5 % for UK. If no longer had benefit of generous Barnett formula funding from Westminster the cuts of thus week would be dwarfed many times over to make up shortfall. Independence??No thanks!!!!
@@Magpie6639 There are so many flaws in what you said. Yes you answered with the Barnet formula, and there lies the problem. Hollyrood is an extension of Westminster, it operates under a UK Act, It prevents rather than enables, look at energy policy, worth billions, yet Scotland is not permitted to have its own electricity company, how is that fair? We do not have any control of UK decisions and the impact of these. The Scottish govt have spent a lot of money to avoid the cuts from Westminster. Westminster is not providing the security you think. It has been managed decline over the years and cuts are going on to budgets because of UK cuts. GERS figures are not accurate. You would not run a country on basis of it. Plenty of models to raise revenue and to invest, but the UK is preventing that.
Sorry Lesley the bottle deposit scheme is a daft idea. I happily recycle bottles and cans etc by putting them in a blue bin that’s collected every 3 weeks. 1 bin lorry goes round the village every 3 weeks. This scheme would have meant paying a deposit then to retrieve that having to drive 1.5 miles with some bottles to put them in a machine that gives me back a few pence. I’d either do that a couple of times a week or put them in my black bin destined for landfill. Either choice is in no way green.
Community councils get a whole £200 more a year, Lesley, i.e. £600. The community council in my area has to spend £400 a year for somewhere to meet, leaving £200 for everything else.
As pointed out on Two Davies yesterday, Mr. Swinney has replaced the party manifesto pledge for independence with his own choice of ending child poverty. No one argues that child poverty is a worthwhile policy to work on but the problem is that SNP members were elected on the basis of their publicised manifesto of independence and just because Mr. Swinney is a replacement leader doesn't change that the SNP promised independence from Sturgeon onward - he can't change that just to suit himself and any political leader who claims that they support democracy has to either act in support of democracy by following what the public voted for or step down. Such a shame that the SNP has allowed its party to fall to such levels.
On the Grenfell comparative to Scotland - Scottish building regs are more stringent, building control do not get bypassed, fire brigade do not get bypassed, the Contractor is not allowed to self-certify his own work, and crucially there has been no culture of "cut the red tape", all of which was at the root of the Grenfell disaster. Grenfell was inspected after the disaster by the cladding system designer, who found ample evidence the design had not been followed. missing fire-breaks for one - It was a disaster waiting to happen.
- On Pat's point over Mark Griffin - It's political chicanery - There is no relationship between low draw down of funds and not looking at the problem - You don't find a problem, there is no need to fix it.
There us no problem with being in the Union so there is no need to "fix" it with independence.
Just look at Scottish government own figures in GERS reports since 2014 referendum.
Last year 10.4 % fiscal deficit compared to 4.5 % for UK.
If no longer had benefit of generous Barnett formula funding from Westminster the cuts of thus week would be dwarfed many times over to make up shortfall.
Independence??No thanks!!!!
@@Magpie6639 There are so many flaws in what you said. Yes you answered with the Barnet formula, and there lies the problem. Hollyrood is an extension of Westminster, it operates under a UK Act, It prevents rather than enables, look at energy policy, worth billions, yet Scotland is not permitted to have its own electricity company, how is that fair?
We do not have any control of UK decisions and the impact of these. The Scottish govt have spent a lot of money to avoid the cuts from Westminster. Westminster is not providing the security you think. It has been managed decline over the years and cuts are going on to budgets because of UK cuts. GERS figures are not accurate. You would not run a country on basis of it. Plenty of models to raise revenue and to invest, but the UK is preventing that.
Sorry Lesley the bottle deposit scheme is a daft idea. I happily recycle bottles and cans etc by putting them in a blue bin that’s collected every 3 weeks. 1 bin lorry goes round the village every 3 weeks. This scheme would have meant paying a deposit then to retrieve that having to drive 1.5 miles with some bottles to put them in a machine that gives me back a few pence. I’d either do that a couple of times a week or put them in my black bin destined for landfill. Either choice is in no way green.