The Scottish Conservatives have today highlighted the SNP’s “litany of broken promises” since the last Holyrood election in 2021.
Ahead of John Swinney launching the SNP’s election manifesto today (Thursday), Holyrood’s largest opposition party have produced a dossier detailing a vast number of pledges the Nationalists didn’t keep last time around.
Their failures include:
- Not freezing income tax rates and bands
- Not recruiting 3,500 extra teachers and assistants for Scotland's schools
- Failing to roll out free breakfasts to all primary school pupils or introducing a pilot scheme for secondary school pupils
- Failing to deliver a free electronic device to all pupils
- Abandoning Nicola Sturgeon’s plans for a National Care Service
- Ditching their plans for a deposit return scheme
- Failing to develop an app for NHS patients to use
Scottish Conservative deputy leader Rachael Hamilton says the SNP always “promise the earth” to Scots during election campaigns but then “spectacularly fail to deliver”.
She added that the “damning findings” should make Scots take today’s manifesto promises from John Swinney with a “huge pinch of salt”.
Scottish Conservative deputy leader Rachael Hamilton said: “Our damning findings expose a litany of broken promises from this failing SNP government.
“Their last Holyrood election manifesto was a masterclass in overpromising and underdelivering.
“That is typical of the SNP who always promise the earth to Scots during an election campaign then spectacularly fail to deliver.
“Whatever John Swinney promises Scots today, voters should take his words with a huge pinch of salt.
“The SNP’s obsession with independence means they simply cannot be trusted to deliver on what really matters to Scots.
“That is why, as postal votes land across Scotland, voters must use their peach ballot paper to back the Scottish Conservatives and stop an SNP majority.”