Solidarity MSP and Co-Convenor, Tommy Sheridan, today slammed the Lib Dems and SNP for continuing to con the Scottish public over Council Tax policy.

In the aftermath of the expensive, two year Burt Report into Local Government finance, which has been roundly rubbished by all the mainstream parties, Sheridan highlighted the consistent failure of the Lib Dems and SNP over the last 7 years to publish a bill outlining their detailed alternatives to Council Tax.

Sheridan addressing a Solidarity meeting today, said

 “The Council Tax is fundamentally unfair. It takes significantly more from pensioners and low paid workers than the well paid and wealthy. It is a Tory tax and must be replaced by a fairer, income based alternative. Yet despite 7 years of rhetoric from the Lib Dems and SNP no bill to replace the Council Tax has been forthcoming from either of them. Their opposition is empty words. When my Abolition of Council Tax Bill was debated in February this year both parties sided with the New Labour and Tory Party council tax apologists. Their opposition to council tax is exposed as a con. When push came to shove they voted to keep a tax that hammers the poor in favour of the wealthy.”

Sheridan further commented today

“If I am returned as a Solidarity MSP next May I promise to re-introduce my practical and radical bill to replace Council Tax with an income based service tax. Scotland’s army of hard pushed pensioners and low paid workers deserve a better system.”