Bonuses to Harvest Votes

 The NHS do a great job and especially shine during the pandemic, as so do other essential workers such as police, fire service, prison officers... it’s quite an extensive list but let’s look at NHS staff in particular as our Scottish First Minister has announced at the SNP conference that she (well actually the U.K. tax payer) will gift NHS workers with a £500 bonus which basically adds up to about £180 million.

Now I don’t grudge anyone getting paid more for what they had to deal with but consider this .... Rishi Sunak gave Nicola Sturgeon additional funding to deal with COVID, she has withheld about a billion of this money as it’s has not recompensed the many small businesses it was ear marked for (many of these smaller businesses have since collapsed and the employees have now joined the dole queue) but instead sturgeon has decided to give public servants a bonus then asked the UK Govt not to tax it basically baiting the “Tories are selfish monsters” narrative again if the British Government do tax this money.... but as a spokesperson from HM Treasury said: "The income tax on these payments is paid to Scotland, not Westminster - and the Scottish government has the powers and funding to gross up the payment if it wishes."...but of course the Scottish government won’t as the SNP rely upon the ignorance of the electorate who don’t know this and will believe in the Westminster scare story they continuously peddle.

As I said, it’s not that I resent the hard working NHS workers benefiting from this payout but our economy is smashed, we already pay the highest rate of tax in the U.K. up here in Scotland and I do wonder what better uses the SNP could have put that £180 million (perhaps invest in cancer treatment as there will be a massive backlog once Covid starts clearing) and the much many millions more which has been passed up from Westminster to help out Scotland during the Covid pandemic which has not so far been handed out by the SNP as was intended by the U.K. government..... the one thing I am sure the money was not for and that is a blatantly hypocritical attempt to harvest votes for the coming elections next year and also to further deflect criticism from Sturgeon’s piss poor performance in Scotland over Covid