Finally, as Scotland faces an ageing population, the SNP haven’t provided any answers about how they would fund our pensions. In his leaked memo to the Scottish Cabinet, the Scottish Finance Secretary, John Swinney MSP, admitted that they didn’t know how the state pension would be funded, but in public they continue to provide assurances to Scotland’s older people. Similarly, even when they were under pressure earlier in the year from the Institute for Chartered Accountants Scotland (ICAS) with a list of detailed questions, they weren’t able to provide the answers. These are just three areas where the Nationalists have failed to provide any detail, but the same is true of defence policy, the affordability of renewable energy in a separate Scotland or even our membership of the EU. The least that people across Scotland deserve are straight answers to these basic questions
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:57:45 +0000
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