I will sort out confusion over Council Tax

Cathy Jamieson has said that her first act as Labour Leader in the Scottish Parliament will be to demand a meeting with Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling to sort out the confusion over Council Tax and to protect Scotland's £400million.

She said:
"I'm fed up with Alex Salmond's megaphone diplomacy and his constant negative sniping.

"I want to fix the present system and replace it with a workable and equitable improvement.

"It may not be easy and others have struggled with this over the last few years but the SNP's unfair Local Income Tax is not the answer.

"Any solution must guarantee that we protect and retain the £400 million Council Tax rebate.

"I don't want Scotland to lose this money and I won't gamble it just to have a pop at Westminster.

"This needs a mature and sensible discussion not petty point scoring.

"It's better to discuss how we keep the money than come up with something as poor as the half-baked so-called Local Income Tax plan. LIT will make Scotland the highest taxed part of the UK and would hit ordinary Scottish families hard.

"There is no way I am going to do back room deals with the Tories.

"If they want to support a fair and sensible Labour proposal that's fine, but we need to remember it's the Tories who are propping up Alex Salmond at Holyrood as he breaks promise after promise.

"I would rather sort out our problems in discussion with our Westminster colleagues than be in hock to a party that wants to roll back all the gains of the last 11 years."



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