Labour is spreading cuts and misery to avoid taxing the super wealthy, says Scottish Green MSP Lorna Slater who has warned that the strategy will only make things worse.
With the Resolution Foundation warning that the UK job market is ‘in recession territory’ it is clear that Labour’s strategy is not working.
Scottish Greens Co-Leader Lorna Slater MSP said:
“Labour appears to be willing to sacrifice the wellbeing of older people, disabled people and families with more than two children in order to avoid having to tax the super-rich.
“They told us that they could be trusted with the economy, but they are failing on all of their own terms and cutting their way into a recession.
“From cutting Winter Fuel Payments to betraying WASPI women and from keeping the cruel two child cap to lining up £6 billion worth of welfare cuts, this is a Labour government that has shown it cannot be trusted.
“We know what happens when you copy Tory policies, you end up with the same kind of economic chaos that we saw under the last Tory government, and it will be the people with the least who are made to suffer the most.
“Scotland deserves so much better than this.
“You cannot build prosperity by hiking up the cost of living for working class families and punishing pensioners.
“They promised change, but this isn’t the change that Scotland waited 14 years for.
“We live in one of the wealthiest societies there has ever been, but that wealth is being hoarded by a small number of very rich people.
“By taxing that wealth properly and forcing the super rich to finally pay their fair share, we can undo so much of the damage that has been done by the Tories and Labour and build a fairer, greener and better society.”
