British Movement (Scotland): more bad news for the SNP - more policy failures and on-going scandals.

 

British Movement (Scotland): more bad news for the SNP - more policy failures and on-going scandals.

First Minister Humza Yousaf - doing what he does best. No wonder that the Al-Mahdi Islamic Centre in Glasgow got such generous financial support from the SNP government.

In a recent BM Scotland blog we commented that scandals emerging from the SNP and its leadership are the 'gift that keeps on giving'. And so it continues....

The SNP Public Spending and Taxation Policies; increasing the top earner tax payment levels in Scotland could see the highest earners moving south to live in England which would mean a loss of potential and actual high tax income for Holyrood.

This insight this week from the Guardian newspaper:

Although the Guardian is a national media mouthpiece for the liberal 'progressive' and Left-wing of British politics, and usually looks favourably on the SNP

Unlike the UK government, Holyrood has few options but to balance its yearly budget. Inflation produced £580m more in tax receipts than projected and the SNP gambled that this would be enough for outlays, such as £100m for NHS waiting lists and higher than expected pay awards, to bolster its flagging appeal. This was a costly bet to lose. The Fraser of Allander Institute warns that the public sector workforce – which accounts for one in five jobs in Scotland – may have to shrink to fill next year’s £1.5bn gap between spending commitments and state revenues.

           In a real blow to the SNP obsession with Scottish independence, even the Guardian is at pains to point out that the SNP Scottish government is forced to go cap in hand to Westminster for millions of pounds to function, something an independent Scotland could not do. Perhaps the SNP believes that by some miracle the European Union would fund a newly independent Scotland.

Again the Guardian makes the point:

Egalitarian values have long been the rhetorical basis of Scottish nationalism. The SNP’s policy differentiation did see free university tuition as well as increasing benefits for poorer families. Scotland has a legacy of deep poverty and deindustrialisation. Without more cash from Westminster, the Scottish government’s choices are limited, as its borrowing options are constrained. Humza Yousaf, the SNP first minister, might say higher taxes on the rich build a “fairer society”. 

Meanwhile  More SNP Scandals Enter the Public Mind

First of all the recent revelations about the SNP grants to a Glasgow mosque linked to Iran.

It seems that the official SNP admissions about a grant to the Al-Mahdi Islamic Centre and mosque in Glasgow was downplayed and the true value of the grant was almost double the original amount.

Classing the grant as being made to a 'charity', the Scottish government made an initial grant of £193,000 to the Al-Mahdi Foundation from the Scottish 'Climate Change Fund', which comes out of the Scottish government budget.

But it finally emerged in mid-December that the total grants given to the Al-Mahdi Islamic Centre in Glasgow amounted to a staggering £372,000.

Given this Islamic Centre and mosque's close ties to Iran and the Iran Islamic Republic with the regime's known hostility to the United Kingdom and the West, how does the SNP administration justify this?

Do Not Forget Nicola Sturgeon

And it would not be the SNP without more information leaking out about Police Scotland investigations into the SNP linked financial dealings of former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and her husband.

                                                   Did someone mention the purchase of a £95,000 Jaguar car ?                                           Where did the money come from to buy that Jag?

Not forgetting that the investigation into the purchase of the camper van by Sturgeon and her husband has not gone away yet.

BRITISH MOVEMENT (SCOTLAND)

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