Where Is The Wee'un Going To Get All The Dosh She's Lobbing About?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-56563529
Free everything, 4% rise for NHS staff, double child benefit, an interim monkey to families. It's like a magic money orchard up there!

[youngmafbog]

We could start with Hancocks local Landlord Emmie.

Getting proof is going to be difficult because they will block any investigation. And Sir Kneelalot has no spine.

[emmie]

then they should be under investigation if wrongdoing is proven

[maggiebee]

SNP Our most ambitious policy agenda yet

If re-elected, we will double our Scottish Child Payment - hailed as “game-changing” by charities - from £10 to £20 per week for each eligible child.

We’ve also committed to extending free school meals - breakfasts and lunches - to all primary school pupils, in all classes, all year round.

And we’re ramping up our ambition further still, with our pledge to provide free laptops for every child.

Our vision of rebuilding Scotland is bursting with confidence:
Doubling the Scottish Child Payment.
Rewarding our NHS staff with at least a 4% pay rise.
Nationalising Scotland's railways
Introducing a National Care Service.
A digital device for every school pupil.
Scrapping council tax for all those under 22.
£50 million women’s business centre.
£100 million digital boost scheme.
£20 million rural entrepreneur fund.
At least one few fast track cancer diagnostic service in every health board area.
Young Person’s Guarantee.
Delivering 100,000 more affordable homes - with 70% for social rent.
And that’s only the start. Over the next days and weeks, we’ll be setting out our plans in more detail, and our manifesto will brim with limitless ambition for Scotland.
Our campaign is centred on optimism and hope for the future.

We’re delivering progress in government despite limited powers and Tory cuts. Just think of how much more we could do with the full powers of independence.

BRING IT ON

[emmie]

so who is paying for this largesse -

[naomi24]

The really sad thing is people like maggiebee are taken in by all that hot air. If they want independence, they're welcome to it. All the more for the rest of us.

[Jackdaw33]

Free laptops for every child; most of which will end up in pawn shops or on Ebay to keep the supplies of Buckies flowing.

[ToraToraTora]

yes maggie, great, how will you pay for it after "independence"?

[emmie]

there is the rub, which is what i have said, how does Scotland pay for it, if Independence comes about.

[naomi24]

Maggiebee will tell you, emmie. I've no idea.

[davebro]

If you didn't laugh you'd cry. Politicians eh!!

[naomi24]

Why doesn't someone ask Nicola why they're promising to splash all this money after they're re-elected rather than now?

[Khandro]

//will she get the dosh to keep up the payments?//
Particularly after paying the Scottish share of the national debt, she can't surely expect to just walk away from that, & does Scotland get it's own new military forces? I've never heard any mention of that question.

[ToraToraTora]

they'll be issuing every man with a catapult!

[Ellipsis]

> If they leave the UK where will she get the dosh to keep up the payments?

If they leave the UK that's her job done, end of.

[THECORBYLOON]

"an interim monkey to families."

I'm sure the SSPCA will be opposed to that...

[maggiebee]

Feel all you English nationalists need to read up a wee bit more. Scotland's military force? The armed forced do not "belong" to England. I could cite many more examples, but Jackdaw's disparaging remarks sum the English up. No I don't hate the English, I just want Scotland to be in charge of its own destiny.

[ToraToraTora]

yes you get 8% maggie!

[mushroom25]

// I could cite many more examples //

how about the decommissioning debt for "ooor oil"?

[ToraToraTora]

" I just want Scotland to be in charge of its own destiny. " - by prostrating yourself at the foot of Lili Von Schtupp?

[Zacs-Master]

Scotland only has one destiny. It isn't a viably economic entity so will always rely on subsidies (English or EU) unless they learn to live without all the freebies.