Quote Originally Posted by The AuldYin View Post
How come there are no strikes in England? Cooncil strikes I mean not the train drivers. How come English cooncils have money to offer decent wages but we dinny? You'd think we've had a cooncil tax freeze/voter bribe up here for years.
The Scottish Government kept £270 million to set up an Indyref2 department staffed by SG civil servants instead of handing this money over to the local authorities throughout Scotland.
The Scottish Government has plenty of money hidden away which magically appears for one of their ‘pet projects’ or to deal with a financial crisis.
The Scottish Government almost a year ago received £97 million from Westminster to deal with the cladding crisis as a result of the Grenfell Tower inferno. A couple of months ago there was an article in the Sunday Times newspaper which advised that the Scottish Government Housing Minister Ms Shona Robison had only spent £250,000 of this money.
She was unable to explain why she had failed to spend this funding ensuring that these high rise blocks in Scotland could be repaired to allow their residents to sleep soundly in their bed at night without the fear that their tower block might go on fire.
It wold be a different story if there were tower blocks in Broughty Ferry requiring to have money spent on them as a result of the Grenfell Fire.