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"For nearly 20 years, the [#SNP] has acted, in many respects, as a bulwark to the worst of Westminster – or so the story goes. Not good policy, just not as bad as Westminster. Just enough to hold power without disrupting the status quo.
When the SNP had the political capital to finally scrap the regressive Council Tax – something they had previously promised to do – they baulked. On LGBT ri…

SNP MSP Claire Haughey at conference in Aberdeen: - Due to Westminster policies, there's been an 81% drop in Health and Care worker visas in one year, devastating Scotland's health and care sector.
MSP Emma Harper adds that Labour must allow foreign healthcare workers to bring their families with them when they come to Scotland.
Both are nurses, as well as MSPs.
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Bus services in Galloway have been catastrophically cut. This is because local government is broke, which is in turn because #SNP #ScotGov lacks the courage to reform local taxation.
I hadn't appreciated how bad the situation is because I've been ill since July and consequently haven't lef…