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The Tory Paradox
The tory paradox with devolution is that it has to be seen as successful and failing at the same time. They give us just enough of our money/power back to claim they are helping, knowing that it is just enough to make sure we fail.
They gave us tax-raising powers so they can complain if we don't use them and tell us we're failing if we do use them. They pretend that they are pro-devolution while we all know they hate it. They only claim it has failed in Scotland because they aren't in control of running it.
It happened in London, Tory Mayor and Tory Government equal loads of money for London from Westminster while claiming that only the tories can be successful in running a devolved area. Now they have a Labour Mayor and a Tory Government which equals cuts to funding from Westminster unless they raise prices for transport etc just so they can claim Labour is failing the people of London.
The tories are the party of Divide and Rule.
They can't have a smaller part of the UK being more successful than the larger part so they tell the bigger part that the smaller part is spending their money, implying that the smaller part isn't paying their fair share. While at the same time using Scotland's resources to help fund the fuel crisis help. It can't be both, we can't be too poor to look after 5.5m people while helping out 65m people.
They do it with the "class" system, turning like against like. They have working people attacking people on benefits so we don't look at their tax-avoiding pals, knowing that the majority of people on benefits are working.
They do it with workers. They complain that the railway workers are going on strike for more money BUT tell us that rail workers earn more than nurses. Turning workers against workers instead of paying the nurses what they deserve.
Tax rises for the poor, tax cuts for corporates. They tell us that if we tax companies they will leave, they tax us because we don't have that choice.
They tell us they don't want to add debt to the nation's "credit card" and expect future generations to pay for it while being responsible for more than doubling the UK debt to £2.3tn in just 12 years. It took 30 years to get to £1tn and the tories borrowed £1.3tn in 12 years while cutting services and increasing tax to it highest level in 70 years.
The tories DON'T care if people suffer in their pursuit of power.
They only care about themselves. Scottish tories see nothing good in Scotland no matter what happens here. They can't acknowledge anything positive as it goes against the narrative they are being told to follow by their leaders in Westminster.
They choose to ignore what their eyes show them in pursuing power. The tories hate devolution and will never be elected in Scotland as their sole purpose is to end the devolution project and cause as much disruption as they can in Holyrood.
At this moment in time, the tories are even turning on themselves in their pursuit of power and it's the public that suffers.
Get writing to your MPs/MSPs and let them know that they better act or we will elect people that will.