SCOTS SECRETARY CONFESSES TO CRUEL CUT

SCOTS SECRETARY CONFESSES TO CRUEL CUT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT CONFIRMS MURPHY ‘LONDON’S MAN IN SCOTLAND’

SNP MPs have rounded on Secretary of State for Scotland after he attempted to bury an acknowledgement that the UK Government is to slash Scotland’s budget in a lecture on spending priorities in today’s (Monday’s) Herald newspaper.

SNP Treasury Spokesperson Stewart Hosie MP said:

“After months of saying it ain’t so, the Scottish Secretary has finally acknowledged that the UK Government is making savage cuts to Scotland’s budget – squeezing Scottish services and endangering Scottish jobs.

“To add insult to injury, this cruel cut comes as the Pre Budget Report confirms £50 billion of North Sea Oil revenues will flow into a Treasury black hole and prop up the UK economy over the next six years.

“Never before has the case for independence been more pressing. Scotland can manage our economy and finances far more effectively than the UK Government has ever done but Westminster is holding us back.”

SNP Shadow Scotland Office Spokesperson Angus MacNeil MP added:

“Instead of lecturing the Scottish Government on spending priorities, the Secretary of State should be fighting against this swingeing cut to Scotland’s budget. This latest debacle underlines that Jim Murphy is not Scotland’s man in London but London’s man in Scotland.

“The UK Government needs to cut the things the people of Scotland neither need nor want: the obscene Trident nuclear weapons system and the pointless Scotland Office must top that list.”