THEY all agree on the need for independence – what else do they agree on and what separates them? The SNP and the Scottish Greens were they only two pro-Yes parties in the Scottish Parliament last time, but independence supporters now face wider choice at the ballot box. Today the Sunday National compares the manifestos of five parties campaigning for your vote on May 6.
INDEPENDENCE AND EUROPE THE SNP advocate a referendum on sovereignty for Scotland during the next parliamentary term – within the first 2.5 years “if the Covid crisis has passed” – and rejoining the EU. The Scottish Greens also want the ballot during the next parliamentary session and to take Scotland back into the EU.
Horrifying : Charity delivers one food bank parcel every seven minutes to Scots children FOOD banks have been handing out nearly one emergency food parcel ever seven minutes to Scots children during the pandemic - but one charity says it is just the tip of the iceberg . Some 220,000 emergency food parcels have gone out at Scots food banks run by the Trussell Trust charity between April 2020 and March 2021 - a 63% rise on this time five years ago. That s a parcel every two-and-a-half minutes. And the charity which said its figures are horrifying says that more than 77,000 of the parcels went to children.
Opinion: Pandemic proves that we need a better social security system by Debbie Horne A YEAR into the pandemic and we’ve seen a glimpse of the potential of the welfare state to financially support people. Now it’s time to consider how to build a social security system that truly works for everyone. While the social and economic impact of the pandemic has touched us all in some form, some groups of people have been hit much harder than others, with pre-existing inequalities sharpened. This includes the disproportionate numbers of disabled people and carers who were already locked into poverty.
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - APRIL 15: Scotland s First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, launches the SNP Election Manifesto during campaigning for the Scottish Parliamentary election on April 15, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. MANIFESTOS, what are the public to make of them? It is difficult to judge parties who have not been in power and cannot implement their manifesto promises, however we do have parties elected to government and we can judge them on their manifesto commitments. On Thursday we had the launch of a party manifesto from a party who has been in government for the last 14 years, the SNP. So are we to believe some of the new manifesto commitments from the SNP? Well to do that, we need to look at their record and actions from there 2016 manifesto, their performance in government, because action speaks louder than words.
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