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INDEPENDENCE would see public services in Scotland subjected to greater cuts than under Margaret Thatcher’s government, Labour veteran Lord Reid claimed yesterday.
The reality of a Yes vote next month would be “spending cuts worth £6 billion in the first few years after independence,” the former cabinet minister said.
“Instead of investing in our public services as we can today with devolution, we would need to cut the number of doctors, nurses and teachers with independence.”
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP