By stewartb
The BBC News website on March 27 2025 had this headline: UK child poverty numbers reach a record high’.
It repeated: ’An extra 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, will be pushed into relative poverty by these changes, according to the government’s own impact assessment.’
Of course the party of government referred to is the British Labour Party, the same party that wishes us to vote it into government in Holyrood in 2026. The very same party that ‘Scotland’s Champion’, the Daily Record urged us to vote for in the 2024 UK General Election and will no doubt support in the Holyrood election in 2026.
In a Daily Record article on child poverty in Scotland published on March 23, 2023 one can read this: ‘Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy said: “The SNP’s failure to tackle poverty is a shameful blight on their record in government.
“A single person in poverty is one too many and a single day spent in poverty is a day too many – but the SNP seem content to let things stall at these devastating levels.’ (my emphasis)
Let’s repeat the Labour government’s own impact assessment: ‘An extra 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, will be pushed into relative poverty by these changes’.
Source: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/child-poverty-same-disturbing-level-29530281
On March 27, 2025 the BBC News website had this headline: ‘Sarwar defends UK government welfare cuts’.
‘Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has defended the UK government’s controversial welfare reforms. Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed £5bn of cuts in the Spring Statement in a bid to meet self-imposed debt rules. The cuts have been condemned by charities, Holyrood ministers and some Scottish Labour politicians.
‘Sarwar insisted the “principle” of reform was right but that any measures had to be “fair”.’ Fair? What about: ‘A single person in poverty is one too many and a single day spent in poverty is a day too many’?
The BBC piece also has this: ‘The Fraser of Allander Institute said the Scottish government would receive an extra £28m in 2025-26 as a result of the chancellor’s spending plans.
‘The think tank reported the welfare reforms would lead to a £200m cut in Treasury funding for Scotland in 2028-29, and a £425m cut in 2029-30. It said, overall, the Scottish government budget would be about £900m worse off by 2030 than was previously projected.’
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
I assume that Labour’s Pam Duncan -Glancy will be immune from any Disability cuts that HER party are lining up for the proles ?
She clearly ( no pun intended ) needs new glasses if she sees Child Poverty in Scotland as the sole fault of the SNP . Typical Labour in Scotland diversion tactics – accuse the SNP of YOUR own party failings .
Contempt is too mild a word for these nasty nasty people !
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LABOUR ARE BY FAR THE MOST CONSTANT LIARS
OF ALL POLITICAL PARTIES
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Gone are the days Labour politicians stood by principles and told the unvarnished truth….
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O.K, probably there were some Bob, and I came from a Labour Party voting family. For some reason I never trusted them. I actually voted for the Progressive Party in 1961 for my first vote, and then when I worked for a senior figure in the Glasgow branch of the Labour Party in the 70/80s, not in the political sense I might add, I saw at first hand some of the shenanigans that took place. Nowadays they are as far away from their original ideals as is possible, so how anyone can vote for them, is to me, a mystery.
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My grandad had been a Red Clydesider and fervently Labour – From the 1980/90s, he insisted the party was losing it’s way and he was getting increasingly angry about it, but when Blair became leader he was apoplectic with rage and never voted again until the day he died….
I never voted anything but SNP, but found it fascinating over the last few decade to lurk on English forums to gain insight on what real people think there, and it’s very far removed from what the media are reporting, and even that was commented on there.
It’s not just Scots who are aware of living ‘with’ not ‘in’ a parallel political media universe which dictates ‘democracy’ – Eric (?) Blair’s ‘1984’ is very much in folk’s minds of late, as https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03/29/first-they-came-for-the-quakers/ amply demonstrates with the ‘Thought Police’.
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Recall that on March 27, 2025 the BBC News website had this headline: ‘Sarwar defends UK government welfare cuts’.
‘Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has defended the UK government’s controversial welfare reforms. Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed £5bn of cuts in the Spring Statement in a bid to meet self-imposed debt rules. The cuts have been condemned by charities, Holyrood ministers and some Scottish Labour politicians.
Now by way of contrast, on March 28, the BBC News website has this headline in its Wales section: ‘First minister refuses to back welfare cuts’.
‘Wales’ first minister has refused to back UK government welfare cuts announced by the Labour chancellor earlier this week.
‘Giving evidence to a Senedd committee on Friday, Eluned Morgan said she wanted to “reserve my position” until she knew what the impact would be on Wales.
‘Welsh Labour leader Morgan also confirmed she was still waiting for a response from Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall to her request for a Wales-specific impact assessment and said she was now seeking a meeting with her. Morgan wrote to Kendall requesting an assessment on 11 March. She has previously described the delay as “disappointing”.’
Is Mr Sarwar basing his ‘defence’ of the cuts on a Scotland-specific impact assessment or again indulging in ‘party before Scotland’s people’ politics?
The pro-British Labour Party news and current affairs website LabourList has this headline (March 28): ‘Welfare reform: List of Labour MPs prepared to rebel against benefit changes’.
‘More than 20 Labour MPs have said publicly that they will not back the government when proposed welfare reforms are voted on in Parliament.’
The article lists 25 Labour MPs who have said they will rebel against the government. Only one, Brian Leishman, represents a constituency in Scotland. It names four others who have expressed opposition to the welfare ‘reforms’, none from Scotland.
LabourList is proposing to keep a rolling list of Labour MPs who have said they are prepared to rebel against the government over the changes to health-related benefits.
Outside Westminster, and in contrast to Sarwar the defender of ‘welfare cuts’, LabourList reports Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham stating that ‘the government is making “the wrong choice” by restricting eligibility for disability benefit.’
The British Labour Party in Scotland is in a sorry state – ‘red Tories’ indeed!
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