Meeting of the Parliament 11 September 2024
I am sorry, I do not have time.
Young people from the most disadvantaged backgrounds are five times more likely to be unemployed. Those are not just numbers: they are young people denied opportunity.
Scotland’s once world-renowned education system is on its knees after 17 years of the Government’s mismanagement, and the SNP cannot keep blaming someone else. I find the Government’s amendment and the speech from the cabinet secretary to be tiresome. People watching are tired of the Government’s excuses for not delivering the things that it said that it would deliver. The SNP can point the fingers all it likes, but people in Scotland see the missed opportunities for reducing child poverty and the incompetence and waste that cost us £5 billion and they can hear the experts when they tell the Government that that is because of its own spending decisions.
It is clear that the path to change does not and cannot lie with this incompetent SNP Government. It must fall to Labour members, who are already delivering, to reduce poverty through a new deal for working people, create jobs in GB Energy and improve finances for working people. That is the change that Scotland needs, that is the change that young people deserve and that is the change that we will deliver.
I move amendment S6M-14406.2, to insert at end:
“, and regrets the Scottish National Party administration’s repeated broken promises to Scotland’s children and young people.”
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