The SNP once again naively thinks the EU will be the saviour of Scotland.
£34M whilst welcome, it is a very small amount of money.
Monies have been allocated to Glasgow Works, StARTworks, programmes in Dundee and Renfrewshire and 43 projects in the Highlands and Islands. Which projects in the Highlands & Islands I wonder?
Another Job creation [...]
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SNP Say £34M Ensures Job Safety
Swine Flu vaccination
Swine flu funding call rejected
The Scottish Government is seeking funding towards the cost of vaccination
Calls for Westminster to foot the bill for vaccinating everyone in Scotland against swine flu have been rejected by the Scottish secretary.
Jim Murphy dismissed the Scottish Government’s plea to be given £100m in contingency funding.
He said the costs should be met [...]
TaxPayers’ Alliance – Calman Commission – Scottish Devolution
Calman Commission
After many months of deliberation, the Calman Commission has this week reported back on the question of Scottish devolution. Last year the TPA produced a report on Scottish funding, financial devolution and the Barnett Formula which we submitted to the Commission. Our report reccomended full fiscal devolution, so that Scotland would gain control of its [...]
Radical Powers for SNP Government
Can we trust the Scottish National Party Government to spend our money wisely?
The potential for additional taxes is likely and will cost many Scottish residents dearly.
Annabel Goldie, the Scottish Tory leader, is due to meet David Cameron in London tomorrow to discuss the Calman Commission’s report.
Both appreciate that it may be up to an incoming [...]
MP’s Expense Fiddles Must Be Stopped!
I have heard many members of the public make their feelings known on TV and Radio on the subject of MP’s expenses and can we blame them for being so angry?
The arrogance of many of the MP’s who question why the public should feel so angry as they have kept within the rules, is an [...]
Tory Plan For Green Technology
We must start looking at tomorrow today! This plan laid out by Conservative Party, George Osborne, fits the bill.
Our plan for a green technology recovery
Thursday, April 16 2009
George Osborne
George Osborne has set out a series of measures that could be introduced in next week’s Budget and would bring about a green technology revolution in Britain.
The [...]
How to save £57.8 billion – Tax Payers Alliance and Dispatches
TPA and Dispatches reveal how to save £57.8 billion
The TPA launch a new report showing that the Government could save £57.8 billion a year, £2,277 per family, by cutting structural waste in the public sector. The report was written by William Norton, a key author of the James Review in 2005, who revisited the subject [...]
Lords to vote on EU reform treaty
The House of Lords will vote later on whether to ratify the EU reform treaty – its final Parliamentary hurdle.
All 27 members states must ratify the treaty before it becomes law.
It comes amid calls for the treaty to be abandoned after it was rejected by the Irish in a referendum.
Conservative peer Lord Howell has tabled [...]
Scottish Executive Healthy Respect sex education project “failure” – Mary Scanlon MSP
Emergency contraception for school children shocker
Almost 50 schoolgirls under the age of 16 have been given the morning after pill by a Scottish Executive programme set up to cut the number of teenage pregnancies. The Mail on Sunday has learned that the Healthy Respect sex education project has given out free emergency contraception pills to [...]