BROWN BLUNDERS OVER SPENDING CUTS.

BROWN BLUNDERS OVER SPENDING CUTS.

PM: NO COUNTRY WOULD CHOOSE TO CUT SPENDING IN RECESSION

SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson MP has seized on Gordon Brown’s admission at PMQs today (Wednesday) that “there is no country in the world that is choosing to cut public spending [in a time of recession].”

The UK Government is set to slash Scotland’s public spending by as much as £1bn in the teeth of the recession.

Mr Robertson said:

“Gordon Brown is absolutely right that slashing public spending in the face of recession is madness – so why is he slashing public spending in Scotland?
“This boomerang blunder exposes the double standards of the Prime Minister’s position.
“Now that Gordon Brown has confirmed that cutting public spending is the wrong thing to do, he must acknowledge the reality of his party’s damaging cuts agenda.

”Labour are planning to raid Scotland’s health, education and housing budgets by introducing the first real term cut in Scotland’s public expenditure since the Tories in the 1990s.
“The Prime Minister’s blundering bluster demonstrates exactly why Scotland needs to be responsible for all of our own resources, with an independent Scottish Parliament controlling all revenue and spending in Scotland.”