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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-sc...s-38796517

Scottish councils have warned that the government's budget plans could lead to "significant" cuts to local services.

The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) said the proposed funding package would "result in extremely difficult local decisions".

A Scottish government spokesman insisted councils had been treated "very fairly" in budget settlements.

The government needs one opposition party to at least abstain to get the budget past its first vote on Thursday.

A briefing paper sent around MSPs by Cosla, which includes many of Scotland's councils, said "misrepresentations" about the proposed deal were confusing communities and damaging the role of local government.

Let's have a bit of balance here Bella otherwise it just becomes Bella's own personal propaganda thread.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-sc...s-35119691

Scotland's Finance Secretary John Swinney has defended his budget decision to cut local government revenues by 3.5% for 2016/17.

He told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that in England councils had faced reductions of about 27%.

Mr Swinney's budget, delivered on Wednesday, pledged no change to income tax and a continued council tax freeze.

He said: "If you compare the situation of Scottish local government with English local government - English local government over the last few years has gone down by 27% in its funding and Scottish local government has essentially had flat cash from the Scottish government for a number of years.

"So it starts from a much higher baseline figure for the provision of local authority service."

Mr Swinney argued that the revenue reduction had to be seen in the context of funding increases elsewhere.

He explained: "Now the reduction of 3.5% is in resource terms, but that is not the only thing you have to look at.

"You have to look at the fact I announced one of the largest reforms in the delivery of health and social care there has been since the foundation of the National Health Service in 1948 with an injection from the health resources of £250m into the delivery of health and social care services at local level."

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..talking absolute pish as usual.

Looks like they don't even care about Scotland, instead of employing and training Scots they want to import even more foreign labour.

It has long been known that immigration actually benefits the host country financially. So if they don't allow in immigrants then they would be accused by people like you of damaging the economy.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles...mmigration
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016...uk-economy

Secondly, who says that Scots are not being trained up?

University tuition is free for Scots, or at the very least damn cheap compared to the rest of the country.

http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co...-scotland/

The standard tuition fee for an undergraduate degree course in Scotland in 2016 is £1,820. The Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) will pay these fees if you meet eligibility conditions; for example, if you are a Scottish resident and/or a qualifying non-UK EC student.

So it looks like you're the one talking pish as usual Bella.