Meeting of the Parliament 02 September 2025
We will focus on efficient spending, champion self-reliance, demand freedom for people to aspire and to succeed, and bring forward common-sense solutions to cut red tape.
A thriving economy gives us a chance to fix public services. A failing economy will mean only more of the same, from what is a failing Government. That is the choice that the Parliament faces over the next eight months: take the path towards prosperity or stay on the SNP’s road to nowhere. That is the choice that the country will face next year: a continued slide into stagnation under the SNP or a new way forward for the common good.
I move amendment S6M-18671.4, to leave out from “welcomes” to end and insert:
“recognises that the Scottish Government has failed to take action on the priorities of taxpayers, like cutting NHS waiting lists, fixing crumbling roads and stimulating economic growth; acknowledges that, despite repeatedly raising taxes, public services have not improved in Scotland; laments that, increasingly, the Scottish Government has focused on its obsession with independence, as well as fringe issues like gender reform and subjects wholly outside its remit like foreign affairs; notes with concern that Scotland continues to have a bloated public sector, with a huge number of quangos that often have overlapping functions and remits; argues that public money would be better spent being diverted to frontline services rather than on the bureaucratic state, and calls for the Scottish Ministers to prioritise economic growth and improving public services rather than yet another push for an independence referendum.”
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