Scottish Labour must get serious about battling the bedroom tax, its own MSP has warned as £4.5 billion in welfare cuts loom beyond the border

  Britain ‘MSP rallies Labour over bedroom tax‘  Monday 25 March 2013 by Rory MacKinnon Morning Star Scotland reporter   Scottish Labour

Continue readingScottish Labour must get serious about battling the bedroom tax, its own MSP has warned as £4.5 billion in welfare cuts loom beyond the border

“Why should they choose to govern social security in such a way that people with disability and blindness have to come to the Scottish Parliament complaining about being reduced to penury?” ~ First Minister

Thousands take to the streets of Edinburgh for pro-independence rally By Dailyrecord.co.uk Comments 22 Sep 2012 15:09 SNP leader Alex Salmond told

Continue reading“Why should they choose to govern social security in such a way that people with disability and blindness have to come to the Scottish Parliament complaining about being reduced to penury?” ~ First Minister

SNP’s Dr. Eilidh Whiteford: “I think that you can be very sure that we wouldn’t be asking disabled people to pay for a recession that wasn’t of their own making. I think that’s been the most appalling thing.”

BBC Scotland Newsnight – Welfare Reform – 19th September 2012  This programme is available to watch again until 26th September What

Continue readingSNP’s Dr. Eilidh Whiteford: “I think that you can be very sure that we wouldn’t be asking disabled people to pay for a recession that wasn’t of their own making. I think that’s been the most appalling thing.”

Parliamentary written answers and statements 11th June 2012: Two Quacks on the back-to-work “prognosis” of claimants who have been assessed under the WCA

Work Capability Assessment Work and Pensions Stephen Timms (East Ham, Labour) “To ask the Secretary of State for Work and

Continue readingParliamentary written answers and statements 11th June 2012: Two Quacks on the back-to-work “prognosis” of claimants who have been assessed under the WCA