Funding and Expenditure | First Minister’s Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
Is it any wonder that the people of Scotland are crying out for change from 14 years of Tory chaos and 17 years of SNP incompetence?
Funding and Expenditure | First Minister’s Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
Last year, Kate Forbes attacked Humza Yousaf and said that continuity would not cut it, but she seems to have failed to learn her own lesson, because all that we have heard today is more of the same. [ Interruption .]
Funding and Expenditure | First Minister’s Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
Her attack is straight out of the Tory playbook. Is she not aware that the people of Scotland can see right through that very desperate spin from the SNP? People are tired of the chaos. They are tired of the sleaze. They are tired of SNP politicians not treating Scottish taxpayers’ money with respect. Failing […]
Funding and Expenditure | First Minister’s Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
That was a desperate response from the Deputy First Minister. She had no answer to the £5 billion of waste generated under her watch, and she knows that she is misleading the chamber, because there will be no return to austerity under Labour. [ Interruption .]
Funding and Expenditure | First Minister’s Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
Given the real challenges in the country, can the Deputy First Minister explain to the people of Scotland why the SNP is wasting their money, because that is utterly indefensible?
Funding and Expenditure | First Minister’s Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
That includes agency spend costing the national heath service more than £1.6 billion, delayed discharge costing more than £1.3 billion and ferries now £330 million over budget—the list goes on.
Funding and Expenditure | First Minister’s Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
Wait for it. That analysis reveals that the SNP has wasted £5 billion since it came to office. [ Interruption .]
Funding and Expenditure | First Minister’s Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
It unforgivable that the SNP is wasting taxpayers’ money. The scale of the incompetence goes even further. New analysis published by the Scottish Labour Party today reveals that the SNP—
Funding and Expenditure | First Minister’s Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
It is interesting that the clawback in Scotland is going to be greater than anywhere else in the UK. The scale of return in Scotland is likely to be 28 per cent; in Wales, it is 9 per cent; in England, it is 6 per cent; and, in Northern Ireland, it is 2 per cent. […]
Funding and Expenditure | First Minister’s Question Time | Scottish Parliament debates
I share the sentiments of the Deputy First Minister and Douglas Ross on this day, the 80th anniversary of D day. It is right that we commemorate all the Scottish, British and Commonwealth soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom and liberty in Europe. We will remember them. On Sunday, it was revealed […]