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1 hour ago, Suspect Device said:

Poverty and inequality on the rise in Scotland

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-43498345

Who's at fault? The Scottish government, the Westminster government, the poor themselves, the statisticians, or a combination of all. Or something else entirely.

 

Edited for pedants. Scottish rather than SNP.

The SNP have been the Scottish government for a long time. The Tories are only just in on their own. I didn't post it to have a go at the SNP. You shouldn't take everything as a sleight.

Well who controls Scotland's economy champ?   That's your answer

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1 hour ago, mjw said:

Call it what it is,its a Tory government.
Either that or it's Scottish government up here.

 

Is there any difference in calling it Tory or Westminster. For the majority of my life it's been Tory, red Tory, Tory with Lib Dem bitches or Tory again.

Why get hung up on semantics rather than answering the question?

Who is to blame and how do we  improve poverty levels. Is it even possible?

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4 minutes ago, Peppino Impastato said:

Your mum's tedious champ

Dead people aren't the most exciting.

You'll be happy to know that she managed to cast her No vote in the independence referendum by post. She died the Monday before the vote so wasn't able to see the result.

One less the next time round though.

 

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26 minutes ago, Suspect Device said:

Dead people aren't the most exciting.

You'll be happy to know that she managed to cast her No vote in the independence referendum by post. She died the Monday before the vote so wasn't able to see the result.

One less the next time round though.

 

Sorry for your loss champ

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51 minutes ago, Baxter Parp said:

Inequality explained in a tweet.

 

That doesn't really explain anything. I'd want to know what figures they're using.

Purely on income tax, the PM would be right in saying that the rich pay a higher percentage but I assume the ONS are taking all the indirect taxation into account which would explain it better.

Some indirect taxation is discretionary but by no means all of it. If you're poor, you can choose to avoid tax on alcohol and tobacco for instance. You can't choose to avoid the tax on heating your house. 

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12 minutes ago, Jmothecat2 said:

 


The previous post. Not the previous post to this one but the previous one to that one.

 

So the SNP have no responsibility for increasing poverty in Scotland?

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The people at fault are those who for some reason seem obsessed on setting the poverty line at a ludicrously high level.
We simply do not have 1 million people living in poverty in Scotland and claiming that we do, gets in the way of dealing with the problems suffered by those genuinely in trouble.
f**k off, you tedious c**t
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