McMillan Speaks in Scottish Parliament Debate on the Economy

Stuart McMillan MSP, (West of Scotland, SNP) has spoken in the Scottish Parliament Economy debate.
During his speech Mr McMillan raised a number of issues including the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT), shipbuilding and capital funding.

Mr McMillan said;

"The bottom line is that every person in Scotland and the UK is up to their eyeballs in debt. It is not so much personal debt—although some people are, of course—but the debt built up by two chancellors who threw money around like confetti with little regard for the return on investment.

"They (Labour party) also threw virtually £32 billion of PPP money around, which we in Scotland will be paying back for decades.

" I grew up in Port Glasgow and remember the 1970s, when being outside a shipyard when the hooter went was frightening, as thousands of men and women poured out. When Thatcher came to power, she hammered the final nail in the coffin for the shipyards in Inverclyde.

"The Liberal Democrats do not have much of a record to defend from London but, only yesterday, Homes for Scotland slammed their proposals to add VAT to new-build homes.

"We have had enough of Gray's guff, Tavish's tosh and Annabel's amnesia. Some members will say that Scotland is too poor, too wee and too stupid to be independent.

"I say that Scotland simply cannot afford to remain as part of this bankrupt Britain and that our economy needs to continue to move forward with more economic powers."