JEREMY Corbyn just doesn’t get Scotland. We’re not even sure he cares. So why does he bother putting himself in the firing line by trying to speak with any authority on the issues affecting our nation?
When he’s not struggling to remember the name of a prominent MSP, who just so happens to be the deputy leader of our opposition, he’s making bizarre interventions which don't stand up to any scrutiny.
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His latest tweet, in which he backs Richard Leonard's call on the SNP to scrap the two-child cap in the upcoming Scottish Budget, fails to acknowledge that Leonard – the leader of his party’s branch office – refused to sign a joint letter calling on the Tory government to give Scotland full powers over welfare.
.@LabourRichard is calling on the Scottish Government to use its powers in the interests of the many, not the few.@theSNP needs to listen and scrap the two-child cap in the upcoming Scottish budget.https://t.co/RIJHXznzyo
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) November 26, 2018
".@LabourRichard is calling on the Scottish Government to use its powers in the interests of the many, not the few," he wrote.
"@theSNP needs to listen and scrap the two-child cap in the upcoming Scottish budget."
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So Scotland should continue to cut money from our health, education or housing budget to mitigate the impact of Tory austerity, while Labour refuses to do anything which could bring about real change?
Corbyn and Leonard also seem to have forgotten one crucial detail ... that Labour DID NOT OPPOSE the Tories' Welfare Bill, which contained the two-child cap, when it went through Westminster in 2015. Shameless.
His latest intervention has angered Scottish Twitter.
Liar. Holyrood cannot reverse a Westminster policy. And you will not support Holyrood getting these powers to reverse this vile policy. What you are suggesting is taking money out of Scotland's NHS and education budget to mitigate Westminster policies. That is not for the many
— Paul Campbell (@Paul73Campbell) November 26, 2018
#ForTheFew £300/day #Socialism pic.twitter.com/qpN7XCPkJL
— Wiiliam Brown 🏴 (@Brown666W) November 26, 2018
Have I missed something? Is Child Benefit devolved now?
— Rab Bruce's Spider 🏴🕸 (@RabBrucesSpider) November 26, 2018
Is that so Jeremy? Then why did labour block the powers they promised for Scottish Parliament? Maybe you lot should take your own advice and stop abstaining/voting with tories #ShowerofCharlatans pic.twitter.com/ZPWwioqzCN
— Allie Tennisfan (@AlisonHarriso16) November 26, 2018
Why did your Scottish Labour Party refuse to support the call for more powers to provide social support in Scotland? Does Labour not communicate between leaders? Stop this nonsense. It is a sham.
— Barbara Nairn (@BarbaraNairn) November 26, 2018
Brass neck from the better together brigade.
— Wiiliam Brown 🏴 (@Brown666W) November 26, 2018
Scottish government does mitigate most of the Tory plans with limited resources. May be if labour would actually work with the Scottish government instead of voting with the Tories and trying to blame it all on the SNP things would go better. Same goes for you in Westminster
— Ma Simpsons (@ChrisStirk) November 26, 2018
England - "Oh, Jeremy Corbyn"
— gordon ross (@RossGordonjross) November 26, 2018
Scotland - "Oh FFS Jeremy Corbyn"
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