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Astounding Sunday Times investigation reveals new scandal in SNP’s Socialist Scotland: 800 NHS, central government, council and quango workers whose jobs no longer exist but remain on the public payroll because of the SNP’s ‘no public-sector redundancy’ policy. Estimated cost of paying people to do nothing: £27m a year. One NHS Highland worker has been receiving a full salary and benefits for 17 years despite not having a specific job. The health board refused to say what the worker had been doing for almost two decades and how much they had been paid. Likely cost to the taxpayer is expected to be far higher with several public bodies refusing to disclose salaries for hundreds of the workers awaiting redeployment.

You just can’t help distorting the facts, can you? That 94.1% is a single month snapshot. Let’s look at national debt to GDP by financial year (FY) for a more accurate picture. During FY 2024/25, in which you came to power, debt (PSND) to GDP was 93.5%. Then Rachel R went on her borrowing binge. It was 94.3% in 25/26. And OBR forecasts 94.8% in 26/27 (current FY). OBR forecasts another rise to 95.7% in 27/28, up again in 28/29 to 96.3%, which is meant to be its peak. Then it’s meant to slip back to 96.1% 2029/30 — but that depends on a public sector spending squeeze that’s very unlikely to happen. We’ll see. Anyway stop saying debt to GDP is coming down. It’s not and you know it. It will rise under every year of Labour government until at least 2029/30.

This is very good.