trumpy TAX HIKE ON HOME SOLAR The Tories must press pause on their plans to quadruple the VAT charged on home solar systems – which SNP MSP Gillian Martin has said could be a “major step backwards” in reaching green targets. The UK government this week introduced legislation to increase the VAT levied on home solar-battery … Read more
Scottish Care Review Body. Scottish Care Review Body has been setup to look at how child protection of Children in Scotland is run and being operated and other things as well, petition 1673 looks at these problems and offers sensible solutions but Scottish Social Work disagrees the question is WHY? PE01673: Operation and running of … Read more
TORY CUTS THREATEN TO CLOSE 2500 POST OFFICE BRANCHES SNP DEMAND UK GOVERNMENT PROTECT POST OFFICE NETWORK The SNP has demanded the UK government properly fund the Post Office network for the future, after successive Tory policies now threaten the future of 2,500 branches across the UK according to the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters. The … Read more
The Brexit, Farage connection! Did you think Brexit started three years ago? Maybe this will bring it home that it has been going on for twenty six years (26 years)…and it was brought to fruition in 1993. In 1993 the Tory party got Tory MP Michael Spicer to set up a “leave Europe” Tory party … Read more
MSPs BACK PLANS TO MAKE SCOTLAND SAFER. TORY MSPs PREOCCUPIED WITH “OUTDATED” JUSTICE ARGUMENTS The SNP has taken another step towards the development of a smart, progressive justice system – as MSPs at Holyrood backed plans to extend the presumption against short sentences from three months to twelve months or less. The proposals received support … Read more
CURSE OF RUTH DAVIDSON STRIKES AGAIN. DAVIDSON BACKS LOSER IN RACE FOR NUMBER 10. The “curse of Ruth Davidson” has struck again as her preferred candidate Sajid Javid was knocked out of the Tory leadership race. The embarrassed Scots Tory leader, who has been ignored by her own MPs throughout the contest, also saw her … Read more
TORY LEADERSHIP: SCOTLAND’S LATEST NEWS. The SNP has said that Scotland must not pay the price of a bitter Tory leadership contest that could see Scotland consigned to a Brexit outcome that would be the “worst of both worlds.” Responding to the Tory leadership results that will see Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt go head … Read more
TORIES BACK ECONOMIC DISASTER AND FARAGE AS PM TO DELIVER BREXIT “DISASTER” FOR DAVIDSON, AS PARTY MEMBERS BACK BREXIT OVER SAVING UNION SNP Depute Leader Keith Brown has said the “Tories have gone off the deep end” after the latest YouGov poll showed that 61% of Tories are willing to inflict significant damage to the … Read more
SNP PROPOSE BILL TO END ZERO-HOUR CONTRACT SANCTIONS SNP MP Chris Stephens will today (Tuesday 18th June) present a bill in the House of Commons that, if passed, would change the law to end sanctions for Universal Credit claimants who refuse zero-hour contracts. Under the legacy system, claimants were not sanctioned for refusing to work … Read more
TORIES MUST TAKE THREAT TO DEVOLUTION OFF THE TABLE The Tories must take their threats to the Scottish Parliament off the table and defend devolution against a Boris Johnson premiership, the SNP has said. Scottish Tory MPs this week demanded that Westminster ride roughshod over the devolution settlement by directly funding projects in Scotland – … Read more