Reality usually catches up with all of us, no matter how hard we try to explain things away. Governments too. Not even the SNP’s record amount of spin doctoring could disguise the harsh realities behind Kate Forbes’ spending announcement yesterday. Chickens are coming home to roost, and we are none of us going to like it.
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Prof Ronald MacDonald, chair of Our Scottish Future’s Economy Commission, in response the the Scottish Government’s resource spending review, says Scotland must cooperate to get growth.
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Today’s resource spending review announcement by Finance Secretary Kate Forbes confirmed what we already knew. As it stands, Scotland’s public finances are heading for the rocks.
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A new UK-wide video games network should be created by the UK’s governments to help turn Scotland’s gaming sector into a global “superpower”, a new paper by Our Scottish Future says.
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Mr Gove’s paper shows that the debate over the future of our country is over how we deliver the more cooperative UK that people across the country say they overwhelmingly want.
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A new paper by Our Scottish Future today calls for bus travel to be radically overhauled, with maximum fares of £2 per urban journey, to support both the cost of living crisis and progress towards net zero.
Continue readingA poll in yesterday’s Scotsman shows that a large majority of people in Scotland believe discussions about a second independence referendum should stop due to the war in Ukraine.
Continue readingIn response to the Scottish Government’s plan for Economic Transformation, Professor Ronald MacDonald, the chairman of Our Scottish Future’s Economic Commission said: “This report provides a clear diagnosis of the problems facing the Scottish economy but, on solutions, it is simply a rehash of all the failed scripts we have seen since 2007.”
Continue readingIn response to the Scottish Government’s plan for Economic Transformation, Professor Ronald MacDonald, the chairman of Our Scottish Future’s Economic Commission said: “This report provides a clear diagnosis of the problems facing the Scottish economy but, on solutions, it is simply a rehash of all the failed scripts we have seen since 2007.”
Continue readingThe UK and Scottish Government must “join up to level up”, according to a new paper by Our Scottish Future released today. The paper proposes that the two governments agree a “Framework for Reducing Inequality” based on the agreements Edinburgh and London struck on powers returning to the UK after Brexit.
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