An utter shambles. This can’t go on. General Election now

Specific proposals include:

🔷 establishing a Scottish Fair Pay Commission to agree a single rate minimum wage
🔷 repealing the UK Trade Union Act 2016
🔷 introducing new laws to strengthen workers’ rights
🔷 addressing gender, ethnicity & disability pay gaps

A new single rate for the national minimum wage – ending age discrimination - and more effective employment law to protect workers’ rights underpin plans to build a fairer labour market in an independent Scotland.

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New statistics show 462,160 Scottish households received Council Tax Reduction in August.

People who receive it save over £750 a year on average.

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Inverness will be “absolutely huge” for the Scottish economy in the coming decades.

That’s according to Tom Arthur as he hears about #Inverness2035 . The group behind the vision is led by Drew Hendry MP🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ScotlandsChoice who says momentum is gathering on the plans.

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1 of 7 - The  #ANewScotland  series of papers explain this Scottish Government’s proposals for independence.

Earlier today we launched the latest paper.

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In #Inverness for the launch of exciting new #Inverness 2035 vision by SG minister Tom Arthur MSP. So important that we have a strong, vibrant Inverness at the heart of a strong, vibrant, successful #Highlands . Both need each other! ⁦Tom Arthur⁩ ⁦Drew Hendry MP🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ScotlandsChoice⁩

I am so glad we did not follow the foolish Scottish Conservatives in demanding we match the recklessness of the U.K. Tories. If Scotland ever needed to know how out of their depth Douglas Ross and his team truly are, this is the prime example.

I won’t have to make any re-calculations because I never believed these Barnett consequentials would ever materialise. I knew the mini-Budget would never be sustained.

Another reminder of the many demands made of Scottish Government to immediately match this without any consideration of cost and impact. Thank goodness we didn’t act so rashly

Today, I’ll publish the third in the Building a New Scotland series of papers - ‘A Stronger Economy with Independence’
You can watch live from 12 noon on Scottish Government channel

I wish Jeremy Hunt well as Chancellor. His interview on BBC Radio 4 Today explains the gravity of the situation the U.K. faces. Devastating spending cuts are coming. This has been made much worse by Liz Truss and the mini-budget. The PM and the mini-budget need to go.

'This is beyond a joke.'

Nicola Sturgeon wants a general election to be called, describing Liz Truss as a 'lame duck prime minister'.

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This is confirmation of the dangers I have been warning about since the mini-budget. The price of tax cuts will be spending cuts. Scotland must be able to chart our own course.

The best thing Liz Truss could do for economic stability now is resign. Her decisions have crashed the economy and heaped misery on people already struggling with a cost of living crisis.
The onlydecent thing for Tory MPs to do now is call time on her govt and allow an election

Is it really only 3 weeks since demands were being made of Scottish Government to copy the policies in the ‘mini-budget’?

.John Swinney: 'People are living in terror about mortgage costs going up as a direct consequence of the folly of the mini-budget.

People will lose their homes because of the mismanagement of that mini-budget and its economic consequence.' #bbcqt

It would be all too easy to say 'In the Wee Small Hours' is Edward Hopper in music but it's so much more. There is Dorsey, Crosby, Holiday and Ava in his voice. Only surpassed by 'Only the Lonely' - a masterpiece of popular song.

.Scottish Government is committed to a strong manufacturing sector to drive Scotland's economic growth and support the transition to a net zero economy.

We are investing to make Scotland a global leader in advanced, sustainable and innovative manufacturing.

#ManufacturingExpoSCO