Today the SNP group in Aberdeen City Council submitted an emergency motion calling for the council to not evict anyone subject to the bedroom tax who takes all reasonable steps to repay arrears.
The administration rejected hearing a motion to stop bedroom-tax evictions, whilst at the same time raised senior administration members pay £41,599 higher than the previous administration. The current Aberdeen City Council Administration is now the most expensive in history.
All SNP-run councils have committed to implementing a no eviction policy, following the lead of Dundee City Council, showing it can be delivered. The SNP group in Aberdeen City Council is calling on the administration to give Aberdeen tenants the same protection from this devastating policy.
SNP Group Leader Cllr Callum McCaig said:
“The bedroom-tax is a devastating policy being pursued by the UK Government. Local councils cannot do everything to protect people but the council can do this: they can remove the threat of eviction. When a council tenant runs into arrears through no fault of their own because of the bedroom-tax then the council should not be evicting them.
“The Labour-led administration has chosen today to put themselves and their salaries before the needs of the citizens of Aberdeen. They are failing to take action they could on the bedroom-tax whilst putting up their own salaries up.”
Aberdeen Central MSP Kevin Stewart – a member of the Scottish Parliament’s Welfare Reform Committee – said:
“This is probably the most ill thought-out policy since the Poll Tax, and Labour’s complete inability to stand up for the people of Aberdeen - while lining their own pockets - is as baffling as it is shameful.
“Almost 2000 people in Aberdeen are to be affected by this iniquitous tax – a tax which 90% of Scottish MPs have voted against, yet is still to be imposed on Scotland.
"As long as decisions about welfare are made in Westminster, Scotland will continue to have unfair and damaging policies forced on it by governments that we didn’t vote for. That is why Scotland needs to have the powers of independence, so that we can make decisions in and for Scotland."
The Best Album of 2012 had to be the May release of This is PIL by Public Image Ltd. A post-punk sound that grows on you as you listen to it and captivates your attention.
PIL along with frontman John Lydon have survived the line up changes in the band yet every new album that is released over the years brings new fresh material which musically is challenging and very, very modern.
Yet another catalog of songs we can add among our favourites to the PIL Archive of music over the years not every song equally as strong as the other but some great gems can be found on the album.
Eastwood Cemetery 1PM (next to Thornliebank Railway Station) for a graveside oration. Followed by a march from Thornliebank St/Boydston Rd 1.30 pm prompt. This will be followed by a social/rally at the Shawbridge Tavern, Shawbridge St, with a range of speakers and live music, including the White Rose folk group.
£5. Children free. All welcome.
Numbers 23, 45 and 57 bus (First) will take you directly to Eastwood Cemetery. Speakers include; Gerry Cairns (John MacLean Society), Brian Quail (SCND), Alan Stewart, Iain Ramsay, Celtic League and 1820 Society, The Communist Party of Scotland and Stephen Coyle, historian, who will highlight the links between John MacLean & Irish Revolutionaries.
Former Falkirk MP and MSP, Dennis Canavan, took time out after the launch of Yes Scotland to talk about his reasons for saying yes to an independent Scotland.
Time to support a Yes Vote in the campaign for Scottish Independence and hopefully the correct result will be delivered by the Scottish people in 2014.
Not posted here for a while so must change this starting today with a list of my Yahoo Groups which everyone can ask to join by clicking on the blue button on the Yahoo Group Home Page that interests them.
Kirkcaldy and Fife Yahoo Group
Group dedicated to discussion and information about Kirkcaldy and Fife. Welcome are residents, former residents and those interested in the culture and community around Kirkcaldy and the Fife region.
This group is an Independent Republican Socialist news and debate forum. We support a 32 County Irish Socialist Republic and Scottish Socialist Workers Republic. Support for national liberation struggles for small nations to include all Celts, Basques and Breton peoples to secure Independence. And the Cornish people should be allowed Devolution.
This forum is in Solidarity with the IRSM, Irish Rights Watch, while also being supported by Civil Rights Vets and the Irish Political Status Committee. We urge immediate active support for the Capt.Kelly Justice Campaign, and the urgent repatriation of Irish citizen Noel Maguire to Portlaoise Prison. We also support the campaign to Free Marian Price and an end to selective internment of the Irish by the British.
We also support human rights and assistance for political prisoners and their dependants particularly those presently detained in Irish, British and US Jails.
News & Debate group on political and cultural issues affecting Scotland and Internationally.
"We believe in an independent Scotland where our vast wealth and abundant resources are harnessed and democratically owned for the benefit of all, not the obscene enrichment of the few."
To join give a short bio of yourself in a brief paragraph regarding your political views and interest in an independent socialist Scotland.
This group welcomes independence as a means to a Scottish Workers Republic.
This group is to discuss a way forward for the pro-independence left.
To join you must provide your real name, trade union organisation if any and political affiliation or belief.
Note this is a broad based and non-sectarian forum.
We welcome republican socialists.
Members of the Scottish Left welcome including Scottish Republican Socialist Movement and Scottish National Party.
Group for Scottish Republic news and debate. Scotland faces massive cuts in public spending on frontline services. This group recognises that coupled with the cuts is the democratic defecit that the ConDem government have not a mandate to rule in Scotland. The only solution to escape the cuts and UK financial mess is Scottish Independence.
This group welcomes independence as a means to a Scottish Workers Republic.
This group is to discuss a way forward for the pro-independence left.
To join please provide your real name, trade union organisation if any and political affiliation or belief.
Note this is a broad based and non-sectarian forum.
