ANDREW Bowie MP was interviewed by Gary Robertson on yesterday’s Good Morning Scotland, and asked to provide an insight into Boris’s “Build, Build, Build” plan, and how it rates in regards to the FDR Plan of the 1930/40s getting the United States back to work.
The more that Mr Robertson teased apart Boris’s plan and data, the more Mr Bowie’s speaking voice increased in rapidity; it felt that we were being machine-gunned by his words. It may sound good, but you would like to see the plan documented in order to understand its impact, or lack.
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When pressed about the underwhelming £5 billion recovery plan actually being made up of planned monies being brought forward, he squirmed. Without a valid response, he pushed his deflect button and attempted to criticise the Scottish Government’s unspent “contingency fund”. Based on the advice offered from the sidelines, this budget could have been spent many times over in the last three months alone.
Boris’s Build Build Build Bonus is a balloon – that is, a thin veneer of a substance stretched to contain air or some other gas – and bears absolutely no resemblance to the FDR programme of the 1930/40s. Boris’s is allocating 0.24% of GDP. FDR spent 40% of GDP. Germany plans a budget of 4% of GDP.
Boris shows no sign of embarrassment in comparing himself to FDR. Last month it was Churchill – who is to be in July?
Alistair Ballantyne
Birkhill, Angus
SO Boris is going to Build Build Build to the tune to £5bn, but not in Scotland it seems. In a perverse variation of the New Deal and Dig for Victory, the newly unemployed are to be handed a shovel and told to build new homes they won’t be able to afford. No help to the thousands of skilled folk from the likes of Rolls-Royce, Airbus and Easyjet, who will soon be involved in the workings of Universal Credit instead of airplanes.
Brian Lawson
Paisley
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