Labour’s Scots hypocrisy

The reaction of Labour Westminster politicians over the proposal for Scotland to use revenues gathered by the UK as a whole to fund 1,000 extra nurses is utterly incredible.

As Labour wanted, Scotland voted to stay part of the UK. Part of Labour’s argument for this was that together our resources could be used equitably. Clearly what they really meant was so Scotland could share its resources with other parts of the UK.

Tessa Jowell MP describes Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy’s plan of using tax raised in england to fund nurses in Scotland as like treating the South-east of england as a ‘cash cow’. Does she share that same view with regard to the North-east of Scotland, one of the most unequal areas in the UK, with regards to oil and gas revenues that it raises? If so, I haven’t heard it. Diane Abbott MP describes the plan as unscrupulous. Yet despite her own opposition to Trident, she remains a member of a party that is content with dumping the entirety of the UK’s nuclear weaponry 30 miles from Scotland’s most populated city.

Let’s not forget whisky, which makes up a quarter of all UK food and drink revenues. Does Scotland see every penny of that? Nope.

This latest hypocrisy from Labour confirms what only former Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont had the courage to say publicly; that Labour has no clue on Scotland and is in complete meltdown.

CLARE McWILLIAMS, Aberdeen.