Councillor Robert Brown, Liberal Democrat Group Leader on South Lanarkshire Council today condemned the SNP Scottish Government budget as “disastrous for local services, disastrous for homelessness and useless for economic growth.”
The Scottish Government budget contains swingeing cuts to vital areas, including:
Robert Brown said:
“The bad news for councils will spell more trouble for everything from our roads and leisure facilities to our schools.
Swingeing cuts to the housing budget during a housing crisis will do nothing to tackle homelessness in South Lanarkshire and cutting mental health flies in the face of the post Covid crisis.
The SNP have spent years ignoring expert warnings about the lack of a long-term economic strategy and the impact of its failure to grow the economy. Taxpayers in South Lanarkshire and across Scotland are now having to pick up the tab for SNP failure – paying more for fewer and poorer services.
Scotland generally has suffered a lethal combination of a Conservative Government in London which crashed the economy and an SNP Government in Edinburgh which cannot manage its finances.
Scottish Liberal Democrats will stand up for a growing and thriving Scottish economy which generates the tax revenue we need to invest in supporting local services, tackling the climate emergency, lifting up Scottish education, rescuing the NHS and building more warmer homes."