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Solidarity Alternative Budget |
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Solidarity, Scotland’s Socialist Movement, have unveiled their alternative budget ahead of Gordon Brown’s last budget as Chancellor. The fastest growing political party in Scotland have called for an end to the unfair council tax, the waste of money that is Scottish Enterprise and the cancelling of ALL council housing debt and ALL PFI/PPP schemes. The money would be redistributed to create apprenticeships, invest in local services and public housing and to abolish domestic water charges.
Solidarity Co-Convenor Tommy Sheridan said:
“Gordon Brown is tinkering with the tax system while presiding over an economy where hundreds of thousands of families, pensioners and children live in poverty. Young people can no longer afford his property ladder, and public services are being slashed in the name of efficiency. Solidarity would redress that balance with measures that attack poverty and invest in our future. In 2003 when we invaded Iraq, Brown said that cost of the war would be “whatever it takes”. We apply that same principle to the only war worth fighting, the war against poverty and inequality.”
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