🏳️🌈 First Minister
@JohnSwinney
is joining thousands of people at Edinburgh Pride, celebrating love, diversity and progress.
🏴 From equal marriage to LGBTI inclusive education, we’ve come so far - and we’ll keep working hard to advance LGBTI rights in Scotland.
We have just published the
#SNPManifesto
.
🏴 Deliver independence
🛑 End 14 years of austerity
🇪🇺 Reverse the damage of Brexit and rejoin the EU
🏥 Introduce a Bill to keep the NHS in public hands
👶 Scrap the cruel two-child benefit cap
Read it here:
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@JohnSwinney
: "So on July the 4th, I am asking you to vote SNP.
I’m asking you to vote SNP to put the interests of people in Scotland first.
I’m asking you to vote SNP for a future made in Scotland - for Scotland."
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@JohnSwinney
: "Never let anyone tell you that independence is separate from people’s daily concerns.
It is fundamental to those concerns, it is about where decisions about Scotland are made.
Decisions over our economy, our NHS and our living standards."
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@JohnSwinney
: "Our ambition is to transfer power from Westminster and into the hands of the people of Scotland.
Taking decisions in Scotland, for Scotland."
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@JohnSwinney
: "The SNP will stand up for Scotland at Westminster, and put Scotland’s interests first.
But we know the Westminster system is broken – no matter how much we try to mitigate its impact."
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@JohnSwinney
: "Elected government, not ermine clad cronies.
Lift the two-child cap, not the cap on bankers’ bonuses.
Bairns, not bombs.
Investment, not cuts.
They are Scotland’s values - and a vote for the SNP is a vote for those values."
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@JohnSwinney
: "We will demand an end to the obscene waste of billions of pounds on a new generation of weapons of mass destruction.
And while we talk about waste, SNP MPs will demand that the House of Lords is abolished.
Our values, Scotland’s choices."
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@JohnSwinney
: "The future of the two-child cap is a simple test.
Are you in government to help children out of poverty? Or are you so morally lost, that you push more kids into poverty?
Our choice – to abolish the cap – is obvious and driven by our values."
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@JohnSwinney
: "The SNP message on the health services is clear, it is simple and it will never change.
The NHS is not for sale.
Voting SNP is a vote to protect our public services and our precious NHS."
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@JohnSwinney
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@JohnSwinney
: "The SNP manifesto argues for new, sensible fiscal rules – rules that will:
👉 End the cuts
👉 Reverse the £1.3 billion cut to Scotland’s capital budget
👉 Invest in public services, starting with the NHS."
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@JohnSwinney
: "First and foremost, we are the only major party arguing for an end to the spending cuts.
The arbitrary Tory fiscal rules, adopted by Labour, bake in more eye-watering cuts - £18 billion of cuts."
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@JohnSwinney
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@JohnSwinney
: "Independence for the powers to protect our NHS and to help people through tough times.
Independence for a stronger economy, and happier, healthier lives.
And independence for a better future for Scotland – made in Scotland – for Scotland."
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@JohnSwinney
: "It is through independence, therefore, that we believe we can build the fairer country and the more prosperous economy we know is possible."
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@JohnSwinney
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@JohnSwinney
: "At the very heart of our beliefs is the principle that decisions about Scotland should be made by the people who live in Scotland."
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@JohnSwinney
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@JohnSwinney
: "We are a moderate left of centre party in the mainstream of Scottish public opinion, firmly rooted in the ideas of inclusion and internationalism.
We will always put the interests of people in Scotland first – wherever our people were born; wherever our people
🏴 First Minister
@JohnSwinney
launches the
#SNPManifesto
in Edinburgh:
"I believe people are crying out for principled leadership which is prepared to argue for what it believes in.
So today as I launch the SNP manifesto for the 2024 General Election, let me set out the core
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SNP's Keith Brown says police officers in England and Wales should be paid more and that cuts are "the biggest threat to continued effective policing in Scotland".
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