Scottish Government freezes rail tickets and rents to tackle cost of livi

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“Nicola Sturgeon has announced a rent freeze for public and private rented properties as part of efforts to help people struggling with rising bills.

The first minister said the cost-of-living crisis was a "humanitarian emergency" which could cost lives.

Her government is to table emergency legislation banning evictions during winter and freezing rents until spring.

There are also plans to freeze rail fares and to boost the Scottish Child Payment to £25 per week from November.

Ms Sturgeon has also written to new Prime Minister Liz Truss, asking her to convene a four-nation meeting of political leaders to focus on helping households.

The plans were part of the first minister's annual Programme for Government speech, which comes at the start of each new year at Holyrood.

She said the legislative programme was deliberately focused on the cost-of-living crisis, which she said "poses a danger not just to livelihoods but to lives".

Ms Sturgeon called for action from UK ministers "on a scale similar to the Covid response", but said her government would also take further steps to "strengthen the emergency safety net for those struggling to pay bills

This includes an increase in the Scottish Child Payment - a weekly payment to families who are in reciept of certain benefits - to £25 per week from 15 November. The scheme is also to be expanded to eligible under-16s, meaning more than 400,000 could benefit.“ 

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-62807578

[Benji 20,113]

It’s about time.

If the SNP weren’t chasing glory this could’ve happened a lot sooner when Scottish Labour were pushing for it.

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maybe i should move to scotland

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i hear that scottish women are strong

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18 minutes ago, Benji said:

It’s about time.

If the SNP weren’t chasing glory this could’ve happened a lot sooner when Scottish Labour were pushing for it.

They literally just took over Scotrail, still doing more for Scotland than Labour did for 50 years in Scotland. 
 

Literally no difference between Scottish Labour and the Scottish Tories, as evidence of the council elections. 

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15 minutes ago, Miss Dolly said:

They literally just took over Scotrail, still doing more for Scotland than Labour did for 50 years in Scotland. 
 

Literally no difference between Scottish Labour and the Scottish Tories, as evidence of the council elections. 

Pretty much every liberal policy enacted before 2007 is thanks to Labour… Scotland wasn’t founded when the SNP gained a majority.  In fact, the SNP wouldn’t even have the powers they do now without thanks to Labour’s devolution policy.

You can’t deny that the SNP were voting against these exact actions when Labour were pushing for it, it’s on record.  Stop falling for the nationalist spin, the SNP continue to play games hoping to score points whilst people struggle.

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11 minutes ago, Benji said:

Pretty much every liberal policy enacted before 2007 is thanks to Labour… Scotland wasn’t founded when the SNP gained a majority.  In fact, the SNP wouldn’t even have the powers they do now without thanks to Labour’s devolution policy.

You can’t deny that the SNP were voting against these exact actions when Labour were pushing for it, it’s on record.  Stop falling for the nationalist spin, the SNP continue to play games hoping to score points whilst people struggle.

Yet, the SNP actually enacted these policies today to help the cost of living, with emergency legislation, It was actually SNP campaigning after Labour’s rigging of the 1979 referendum in which lead to the 1997 election. The SNP has been doing well with the cost of living with the extremely limited powers they have. 

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Just now, Miss Dolly said:

Yet, the SNP actually enacted these policies today to help the cost of living, with emergency legislation, It was actually SNP campaigning after Labour’s rigging of the 1979 referendum in which lead to the 1997 election. The SNP has been doing well with the cost of living with the extremely limited powers they have. 

After they voted them down when Labour suggested them 

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4 minutes ago, Benji said:

After they voted them down when Labour suggested them 

Well done to the SNP for not trusting the red tories. 

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2 minutes ago, Miss Dolly said:

Well done to the SNP for not trusting the red tories. 

Such comeback 

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Just now, Benji said:

Such comeback 

Well after Labour coming into coalitions with the tories in Scottish councils, I would not trust them as far as I could throw them