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You are at:Home»Westminster»Mitigating Vindictive Tory Policies Cost Angus £12.6 million This Year

Mitigating Vindictive Tory Policies Cost Angus £12.6 million This Year

EmiliaBy Emilia18th February 20224 Views2 Mins Read Westminster
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Funds spent protecting Scots from Tories means less money available to fight cost of living crisis.

The SNP Scottish Government had to spend £12.6 million in Angus to mitigate vindictive Tory UK Government policies in Scotland this financial year, meaning there is less money available to support hard-pressed Scots families through the deepening Tory cost of living crisis.

Across Scotland as a whole, the range of Scottish Government spending commitments to counter negligent Westminster policies is now an astronomical £594 million a year. And the figures do not include almost £3.5billion of social security benefits which, while devolved, are needed to support and supplement insufficient welfare benefits paid by the Tory UK Government.

The figures also do not include the £290m announcement by Finance Secretary Kate Forbes last week to give hard-pressed households £150 each.

The SNP Government is having to commit an estimated £12.6 million to protect the people of Angus and mitigate vindictive and immoral Tory policies inflicted on our community.

The existence of which takes up an extra £109 for every man, woman and child in Angus of Scottish Government cash which instead could be used to deal with the spiralling cost of living.

With Westminster holding the key economic levers like borrowing, the Scottish Government is severely constrained despite the idea that devolution was meant to provide Scotland with the opportunity to do things differently. An opportunity that is even further restricted if it is continually having to commit eye-watering amounts simply to right the wrongs of the Tories’ underhand austerity agenda at Westminster which is targeted at ordinary people and families

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I started working for Graeme’s office after graduating from Abertay University and while I was studying a post graduate at Dundee University. I then went on to work for Graeme full time as his constituency assistant.

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