🏴 #GERS: Scotland’s notional deficit is falling faster than the UK’s, with onshore revenues increasing by 5.1% to reach £61.3 billion in 2018-19 as a result of continued economic growth.
📈 #GERS: Scotland benefitted from a £3 billion increase in onshore revenues in the last year – the fastest growth since 2010-11 as the overall notional deficit fell by £1.1 billion to 7.0% of GDP, down from 8%, in 2018-19.
📉 #GERS: Scotland’s deficit is falling faster than the UK's due to Scotland’s better economic performance (1.1% compared to 0.9%).
👍 #GERS: Scotland’s revenue is enough to cover all devolved spending as well as all spending on pensions and other social protection.
🇪🇺 This progress is being made by the stewardship of @ScotGov, but it's being put under threat by incompetent Tories and Brexit chaos.
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🧵 The latest Scottish Social Attitudes report (2021-2022) has been published. Here are some of the key findings.
Two thirds (66%) of people in Scotland trust @ScotGov to work in Scotland’s best interests, compared with 22% who trust UK Government. gov.scot/binaries/conte…
🏴 People in Scotland were more likely to trust the Scottish Government (48%) and their local council (31%) to make fair decisions than the UK Government (15%).
👂 6 in 10 (58%) people thought the Scottish Government was good at listening to people before it made decisions, compared with 4 in 10 (41%) who thought this of their local council and just under 2 in 10 (18%) who thought this of the UK Government.
The Russians once planted bugged USB drives in kiosks near NATO headquarters in Kabul, hoping that American personnel would buy a drive and plug it into a secure computer. It worked.
Well, what have the SNP Scottish Government ever done for us?
Baby Box – Giving every baby born in Scotland the best start in life by providing families with a Baby Box, filled with essential items needed in the first six months of a child’s life.
🤨 An unambiguously British nationalist image from the party political broadcast for Scottish Labour.
This comes from a place of attempting to emulate the Tories as much as possible in the hope that Brexit backing seats in the North of England will return to Labour.
It’s a curious choice to broadcast this type of imagery in Scotland when sections of Scottish Labour’s support are pro-independence, 20 polls in a row show majority support for Scottish independence, and the obvious political connotations the flag has in parts of Scotland.
But I will use this moment to make it clear that Tories are banking on infighting doing their work for them.
If you are pro-independence, regardless of political affiliation, I'd advise it's best to do everything that you can to make sure that pro-independence voices are elected at #SP21 to ensure that Scotland has a choice about its future.
With over 20 polls indicating majority support for Scottish independence and the most popular political leader in the UK, we have what is without a doubt, our best ever chance at succeeding.