[QUOTE]ALEX Salmond’s flagship childcare plan was branded a “shambles” yesterday after it was demolished by the Scottish Parliament’s own officials.
Neutral civil servants at Holyrood published a bombshell briefing paper which found that the key plank of his argument for independence is missing £700million and 40,000 mums.
The revelation forced the SNP to admit they had done no economic modelling of their figures and have no idea when the initiative would begin to pay for itself.
Scottish Labour’s Neil Bibby said it showed “just how amateur and ridiculous the Scottish Government’s policy-making has become”.
The pledge to give all children over a year old 1140 hours of childcare by the end of 2024 was at the heart of the high-profile White Paper on independence published by Salmond last year.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/scottish-independence-alex-salmonds-flagship-3363779[/url]
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[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/10743345/Alex-Salmonds-independence-childcare-promise-needs-40000-more-mothers.html[/url]
[url]http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/scotland/article4054051.ece[/url]
Oh, I thought Alex Salmond was some kind of badass navy commander that just had its flagship sank by somali pirates or something...
I can't wait for SNP supporters to dismiss this as pro-unionist propaganda.
[QUOTE=zenith777;44449672]Oh, I thought Alex Salmond was some kind of badass navy commander that just had its flagship sank by somali pirates or something...[/QUOTE]
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[I]badass navy commander[/I]
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