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It's official: Police numbers down
Scottish Labour today slammed the SNP, after offical figures show they have misled people on police numbers. A Freedom of Information request shows that the number of police in Strathclyde has fallen in the last year – and in...
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Margaret: I will never talk the East End down
Margaret Curran today put jobs centre stage today as she tackles head on those who are talking the East End down during this by-election. Speaking after her visit to Walker Precision Engineering, a local hi-tech firm where she met...
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SNP's tax plans slated by financial experts
The SNP’s disastrous local income tax proposals have been dealt yet another blow, with PricewaterhouseCoopers warning they would be ‘difficult to collect’ and ‘put Scotland at a disadvantage’. PricewaterhouseCoopers’ damning assessment comes just a day after military chiefs revealed...
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Margaret highlights plans to get people from welfare into work
Margaret Curran visited Greater Easterhouse Regeneration Agency to highlight the importance of helping people off benefits and into work. GERA runs a number of employment and training services, helping people get into work. Margaret Curran said: “The vast...
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NAT TAX ‘DOOMED’ SAYS LABOUR’S GRAY
SWINNEY CAN’T IGNORE AVALANCHE OF CRITICISM ON LIT – SNP OUT OF TOUCH ON TAX PLANS SNP plans for a local income tax are doomed to failure, Labour’s finance spokesperson Iain Gray said today - accusing the SNP of being...
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LABOUR URGE SUMMIT ON HOUSING CRISIS
LAMONT PROPOSES ‘RIGHT TO SELL’ FOR HOUSE BUILDERS Homes for Scotland have warned that the drastic slow-down in private sector house building because of the credit squeeze has already cost up to 10,000 Scottish jobs. Labour is urging a summit...
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Salmond either mistaken or misleading on police numbers
Scottish Labour today attacked Alex Salmond for misrepresenting police numbers in Scotland. Speaking on Sky News today, Alex Salmond claimed that there had been an increased in the number of police in Scotland. In fact, the number of police in...
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SIMPSON BACKS NURSES AND GPs OVER HEALTH VISITOR SERVICES
Labour is demanding that Nicola Sturgeon steps-in to stop a radical shake-up of health visitor services that could put new mothers and vulnerable children at risk. More than 400 GPs have called on her to halt the plans, which...
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LABOUR - SALMOND EVADING CLASS SIZE ISSUE
Labour’s Rhona Brankin says the First Minister is dodging the issue of the SNP’s ‘broken promise’ to reduce class sizes in Scotland’s primary schools. Alex Salmond has written to Labour’s Education spokesperson in reply to a Parliamentary Question but...
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Margaret fighting for the East End's most vulnerable
Margaret Curran on the side of East End pensioners, fighting SNP cuts to heating programme. Labour’s Candidate for Glasgow East has today highlighted how she is fighting for East End pensioners. She today met with Shettleston pensioner Annie...
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