One can disagree with an opinion with respect and that's what was said in previous threads. A reference and an anti reason was given re the Council Tax situation in Scotland! Well I'm an ex council official who worked within the operation for a long, long time and I'll immediately refer to the years of reduced finances to Scottish local authorities and indeed all local authorities in the UK!!! FACT!!! And before anyone starts flinging muck in the SNP gov's direction, just peruse the capital and revenue expenditure that is received from central govt. It's been consistently reduced/starved of 'healthy cash inflow for years/decades and I've been at the forefront observing how local authorities have to try and evenly distribute their annual expenditure effectively!!! Just look at the poor state of our roads alone and there's a reason for that failure!!! Billions of quid paid in tax by motorists annually and a small fraction of that money is ploughed in to the maintenance of our transport infrastructure!!! Council Tax is a 'hot potato' and IMO an intractable one - it has been that way for years even before devolution and the 'best solution' or holding a moratorium is again all down to opinion.
There's no doubt in my mind the 'real target' for criticism always was successive failed Westminster govts. Certain folk who target the Scottish gov, a gov that is governing on restricted budgets (and various other restrictions because we don't even have a minimum devomax status) wanna 'get real' on the subject and waken up!!! :down:
And by the way, I think we are very lucky to have a top politician and astute leader like Nicola Sturgeon who knows exactly what she's doing and is running our country under very difficult circumstances - something that many critics of Nicola, particularly political ones, conveniently ignore or omit from their conversations. For example Sturgeon v a 'lightweight/backdoor' PM called Theresa May? Absolutely no comparison in astuteness and reputation!! Be thankful Sturgeon is 100% with us, the Scottish people, and will do her best for us although she will never satisfy everyones' aspirations. But that's life!! :rolleyes:
There's no doubt in my mind the 'real target' for criticism always was successive failed Westminster govts. Certain folk who target the Scottish gov, a gov that is governing on restricted budgets (and various other restrictions because we don't even have a minimum devomax status) wanna 'get real' on the subject and waken up!!! :down:
And by the way, I think we are very lucky to have a top politician and astute leader like Nicola Sturgeon who knows exactly what she's doing and is running our country under very difficult circumstances - something that many critics of Nicola, particularly political ones, conveniently ignore or omit from their conversations. For example Sturgeon v a 'lightweight/backdoor' PM called Theresa May? Absolutely no comparison in astuteness and reputation!! Be thankful Sturgeon is 100% with us, the Scottish people, and will do her best for us although she will never satisfy everyones' aspirations. But that's life!! :rolleyes: