Tories plan to keep on cutting
I WILL launch the SNP election manifesto in Perth tomorrow.
And it will set out a plan to end Tory austerity, instead boosting public services and family budgets.
The economic plans from the Tories and Labour have already unravelled under scrutiny from the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies.
They say Tory plans would condemn the UK to continued austerity while Labour’s tax proposals would hit households across the board and fail to raise the funding they promised. The SNP plans would free up an extra £118billion for public spending UK-wide over the parliament.
The Tories’ plans for more and deeper austerity are ideologically driven and unnecessary. And they would inflict further hardship on some of the most vulnerable people and families.
They are all part of a wider Conservative agenda to rip up the social contract that underpins the basis of the post-war welfare state. Older people are in the Tories’ sights as part of this, underlined by their move to ditch the triple lock on the state pension.
But Theresa May, with her post-manifesto meltdown on care charges, has shown she is far from strong and stable.
It’s more like weak and wobbling – and strong SNP voices at Westminster standing up for Scotland can help ensure she doesn’t get away with doing whatever she wants.