Scottish Labour Blunder Yet Again!

It seems that there is little else left to say about the incompetence of the Scottish Labour Party. This is the Party that lost 40 of the 41 seats they held in Scotland in the 2015 United Kingdom general election. The Scottish National Party (SNP) won all but three seats in Scotland in a remarkable landslide during that election. Since then Scottish Labour has stumbled from one crises to another. In the Scottish Parliament elections in 2016 it lost a third of its seats, dropping from 37 to 24. Labour’s decline over the last decade has been stark with opinion polls now consistently showing continued falling support among the Scottish electorate.

Now Scottish Labour has been revealed to have used incorrect figures in an attempt to accuse Scottish National Party MPs of claiming more in travel expenses claims compared to their Labour predecessors. But when the SNP questioned the figures supplied by the parliamentary expenses watchdog it was confirmed that SNP MPs in fact cost taxpayers £1.14million less in 2015-16 than their Labour and Lib Dem predecessors did the year before. Former first minister Alex Salmond, the Scottish National Party MP for Gordon said: “The Labour Party seized on bogus figures to launch an underhand attack on the SNP, only for it to spectacularly backfire now we know for certain that SNP MPs cost less and do a better job.” The SNP stated that on average their MPs claimed £21,000 less than their predecessors.