'In the past few months, we’ve heard endlessly about how difficult this budget is for the Scottish Government.'
After months huddled in rooms with other SNP, and Green, politicians and civil servants, John Swinney will come to the floor of the Parliament and reveal the choices that he has made.
The context certainly is difficult - no-one would deny that. Inflation is still running at a 40-year high, putting all sorts of pressures on the costs paid by the Government and putting pressure on people’s wages and incomes. SNP politicians at Holyrood don’t operate a fixed budget. They can grow the tax base by getting more people into well-paid work, or change tax bands to make those with the broadest shoulders carry the biggest burden, or they can reallocate projected spending away from ill-thought out and disastrous plans like the proposals for a National Care Service, or even a new Independence Referendum.
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