Ooof, that was a bit of a break in posting.
There I was in the middle of a planned 2-part post, and suddenly it's nearly 3 months later. This new job does that to you.
What has brought me back?
(a) the Easter holiday
(b) the fact that the estimable and formidable Alan Cochrane and his cohorts at the Daily Telegraph have been able to break and confirm one of the best anti-SNP stories for ages.
They've got hold of the document about LIT (Local Income Tax), the release of which the Fat Minister has been spending so much public money trying to block. For some reason, the online edition of the Tele doesn't have an image of the document; never mind, here it is:
This goes back to the Nats' proposal for LIT at the 2007 election. It turns out that after they got into office, the official Chief Economic Adviser told them that their policy was incoherent and unaffordable; the promised 3% rate of LIT would leave a shortfall (compared to the existing Council Tax) of around £400m, even if the Treasury could be persuaded to transfer Council Tax Benefit (claimed by and paid to individuals, on the basis of need) to the Holyrood budget. (The basis for this was, of course, never explained.)This just goes to prove what some of us have always thought - the Nats' 2007 manifesto was never meant to be implemented. They didn't expect to win, so thought they could just bluff, bluster and lie, thinking they would never have to deliver on the big promises.
The big question for 2011, of course, is whether they are now any different.
If they lied in 2007, what are they lying about now?
14 comments:
Smee you seem to have missed a slightly seismic event which occurred after the SNP got into Office.
Can you guess what it was?
Goodness me, your loosing your knack old fruit, what what. This is a biggest pile of mince I've read in a long time.
Very poor.
No substantive exploration of the issue.
Cursory abuse of the first minister.
All very disappointing.
Yet not surprising.
Scottish Unionist de-evaporates from his bottle then along comes you!! Do you pair sleep together?
"This new job does that to you."
Must be tiring manning that zebra crossing with your lollipop every morning.
No worries though, with LIT , people like you will save money.
When you feel like it we can talk abut the issue.
And they've had four years in office to think about it, and they've conceded that even if they win another term they'll need another four years to think about it further, with legislation only in the term after that!!
LIT was never a goer. It was an empty promise, just like building schools "brick for brick", creating an SFT, abolishing Student debt, abolishing PPP and abolishing the Council Tax.
None of which have been achieved. Like, not one. None.
Now they have to admit that they have suppressed a report, (and used public money to keep that suppression going), which showed the extent of their duplicity on the LIT.
Apparently Eck said on BBC TV toady that John Swinney had admitted all of this in Parliament, although nobody else who actually in Parliament at the time he claims it was admitted can remember the admission...
watch this space... lies unravel...
Dear me, Smee, are you posting as Braveheart to bolster your pathetic post?
I can put with Cochrane. A good journalist really whatever his views are.
On the other hand the not-so-fragrent Jenny, his better looking half ----- well, deranged harpie.
The Sunday Times paid her off and now the Hootsman seems to have sacked her as well. Ah well.
Jenny is on the dole. Seems poetic for such a hardline Tory who probably approved of it happening to other people in other walks of life. Miners, steel workers etc.
Alan Cochrane, a man whose views I cannot stand but whose skills as a journalist I actually admire.
Certainly compared to his better looking half, the deranged Tory harpie he is married to, Jenny.
Talks about a one-trick pony. She seemed obsessed with the SNP. Quite unhealthy obsession as well.
Poor love lost her job twice within a year. First the Sunday Times and now the Hootsman seems to have sacked her. Couldnit happen to a nicer right-wing Tory who probably approved of it happening to other people in the past. Miners, steel workers, other sort of plebs etc.
AB - I'll pass on your thoughts to Jenny when I see her at the next PTA.
I'm not sure she'll recognize you in that blue dress & blonde wig Sm753?
Must be hard working at tory conferences playing a thatcher lookalike.
"Telegraph Alan Cochrane
Nats' new friends will come to rue their naïvety "
HOOHAR!
Dear oh dear, I don't know whether to laugh or cry, the black hearted unionist concedes that the SNp have the better team, more comprehensive vision and better policies.
Can't wait to see the Tory's thrashed to within an inch of their political lives, couldn't happen to finer folk.
2/1 the people arrested over bigotry and sectarian hatred are also self proclaimed unionists.
What is it with unionism and violence?
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