Nine months ago we wrote a petition calling on the Scottish Parliament to make more money available to mitigate the impact of UK Government welfare cuts through reassessing spending priorities and bringing in more progressive taxation. With the continued roll-out of Universal Credit threatening ever greater welfare misery, it is more relevant than ever – so what’s happened to it?
It was not until the end of October that our petition was deemed ready to be published on the Scottish Government website – after we had removed references to our blog (which could be considered to constitute advertising) and changed ‘Tory welfare cuts’ to ‘UK government welfare cuts’ (presumably ‘Tory’ is regarded as a term of abuse…). So, after allowing time to collect signatures, the petition was not submitted until 24th November.
And it wasn’t until 1st February – the day AFTER the Scottish Government agreed their budget plans with…
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