The Scottish Government has announced its policy plans for 2024-25, with first minister John Swinney saying the eradication of child poverty was “first and foremost” in his government’s priorities.
In a post to its official Facebook account on 2 September, the SNP promoted the government’s achievements in reducing child poverty, including a claim about the impact of an existing policy, the Scottish child payment.
Ferret Fact Service looked at this claim and found it False.
The full, exclusive story is in The Ferret investigative journal today.
Politicians have been promising for years to lift children out of poverty.
If you have a UK in the grip of a neo liberal economy where nigh everything is provided by corporate interests it’s no surprise that there’s ever less for the punters.
Gas and electricity are an example. Once owned by the state national industries charged what was determined by the government.
Now it is a rigged market where the power companies make trillions annually whilst the people pay through the nose or as more the case, go cold in winter.
But it’s the same in so many other areas where again the connected dine at the expense of the masses.
Small beer I know but do folks not see that when they read of Lady Mone picking up £60m profit for arranging the supply of around a £100m of dodgy plastic PPE kit. And she is only a minnow.
But hey. Like Animal.Farm the animals suffer whilst the pigs rejoice in oppulence.
Poor beasts. What am I missing?