THE Conservative benches at Holyrood never fail at First Minister’s Questions. This week Conservative MSP Meghan Gallacher had the audacity to challenge the Scottish Government’s record on childcare and associated costs. She suggested families cannot afford to get into work because of childcare costs! Thankfully the First Minister took no lessons from an MSP whose party at Westminster crashed the economy. He informed Ms Gallacher that the Scottish Government has the most generous childcare in the UK, with 1140 free hours a year for three- and four-year-olds and around a quarter of all two-year-olds.
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Ms Gallacher went on to say that families are having to cut back on essentials. Perhaps she would like to take her concerns to the root of the problem: the Conservatives at Westminster, who have cut welfare with the two-child cap on benefits, something the Scottish Government continue to mitigating against. Ms Gallacher, people cutting back on essentials might just have something to do with increased mortgages as a result of the compete mismanagement of the economy by the Conservative government at Westminster.
Catriona C Clark
Falkirk
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