Speaking as she launched the Scottish Conservative's Common Sense on Tax manifesto in Inverness yesterday morning, party leader Annabel Goldie said:
“We live in tough economic times. Labour’s catastrophic debt legacy poses real challenges for Scotland. At Holyrood, what we need now, more than ever, is a political party with a proven common sense record of delivery over the last four years.
“What we need now, more than ever, are credible and costed plans for the next four years. What we need now, more than ever, are real ideas and policies to grow Scotland’s economy.
“As this document demonstrates, only the Scottish Conservatives are credible on tax. Only the Scottish Conservatives aspire to a dynamic, entrepreneurial, low tax Scotland.
“Only the Scottish Conservatives can deliver.”
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Today Ms Goldie will address the Scottish Police Federation in Aviemore. She will say: “I am proud of my role in giving you 1,000 extra colleagues, out on our streets, detecting, deterring, arresting and helping. “And yes, that means I won a battle with the other parties: I won over those who didn’t want any extra police and I won with those who would only have delivered 500. “I gave an ultimatum to the SNP government: ‘Forget fobbing Scotland off with half your 1,000 more police pledge – and make it the full 1,000 or the budget deal is off’. “I argued, they bowed, and we delivered. The thin blue line was strengthened. “And so the challenge in the next parliament is to make sure that these hard won gains – 1,000 extra police and lower crime – are kept. “Today, I am not going to promise you anything I cannot deliver. But I can promise you that I will not back any budget which does not maintain the funding for the 1,000 extra police. No ifs, no buts, no cuts.”Related posts: