SCOTLAND URGES GORDON BROWN TO SEIZE THE MOMENT AT US CONGRESS MEETING.

SCOTLAND URGES GORDON BROWN TO SEIZE THE MOMENT AT US CONGRESS MEETING.


GORDON BROWN URGED TO STOP $1.4 BILLION IN SCOTTISH PUBLIC SPENDING CUTS!

As Gordon Brown urges the US to "seize the moment" and "make the future work for us" in his address to a joint meeting of the US Congress, SNP Treasury spokesperson, Stewart Hosie MP, has urged the prime minister to “seize the moment and rule out £1 billion of future cuts in Scottish public spending”.

Mr Hosie said:

“Gordon Brown’s cringe-worthy claims over the stimulus package being introduced by President Obama, and now his condescending advice to Congress are simply extraordinary.

“It is Gordon Grown who should ‘seize the moment’ and rule out £1 billion of future cuts in Scottish public spending.

“It is embarrassing and absurd for Gordon Brown to try to take credit for the stimulus package being introduced by President Obama when the UK Government are planning to respond to the recession by slashing spending in Scotland.

“There is clear blue water the width of the Atlantic between President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package, which will support some 3.5 million jobs nationwide, and the response of Gordon Brown.

”A key characteristic of the Obama plan is that the bulk of the additional resources is going to the individual States.

"The state of Maryland, for example – which has a similar population to Scotland – will receive some £2.6 billion extra funding, supporting 66,000 jobs over the next two years.

"Contrast this with the UK where, Gordon Brown is proposing to cut Scottish public spending from 2010 by £500 million a year, in the teeth of a recession. This would destroy 8,700 jobs in Scotland.”