The Scottish Campaign for Fiscal Responsibility is a new organisation, launched this month. It says of itself that it:
is an independent, non-party political coalition
As far as it goes that may be true. But in The Scotsman this morning it was arguing for tax competition.
And on its web site it argues for greater fiscal freedom for Scotland as if this would somehow get round the EU requirements on a cut in the grant from Westminster - which it would not.
Typically for such an organisation, no indication of its funding is provided on its web site.
So this seems to be like so many so called think tanks not about thinking at all, but all about promoting the neoliberal mantra that tax competition is good.
It's left Ireland bust.
It brought the world to crisis in 2008.
The Crown Dependencies are heading for bankruptcy.
But still they argue for this policy of destruction.
I sincerely hope the people of Scotland take note and ignore this siren call.
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The right-wing are organising as you say front organisations because they know there is no way back for the Tories in Scotland. Another group Reform Scotland, who seem to be behind this new campaign, practically all have a background in merchant banking. One of their lot, Ben Thomson, is frequently asked onto the Scottish edition of the Politics Show, where he spouts the usual crackpot ideas that have gotten us into the current mess. There people have no vision for Scotland. They simply want to re-make it to conform to their neo-liberal wet dream. The ultimate goal is a return to feudalism ideally, but they’ll settle for workhouses as a pragmatic second.
I thought Cecil Parkinson said it best actually on a recent Daily Politics: “it seems like the capitalists are out to destroy capitalism!” These people who take a lot and give very little are becoming the gravediggers of capitalism, not the proles Marx envisaged.
Don’t you lot understand?!! If you treat people like s**t, they’ll only take it for so long…