John Swinney and his ministerial colleagues need to accept their approach is going to mean more pain for Scots in the coming years, through more tax rises or spending cuts or both.
Scottish Conservative finance spokesman critiques government approach.
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Their economic approach has the country stuck in a dangerous doom loop of ever-increasing taxes and low growth, which is resulting in far less tax revenue being collected than expected.
It’s indefensible that, while John Swinney imposes soaring taxes and cuts essential services to the bone, he and his Nationalist ministers refuse to cut their own cloth accordingly.
Every single Scot is over £2,700 better off because we are part of a strong United Kingdom.
The damning results in this survey show that SNP ministers have lost control of their ever-growing army of civil servants.
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