I was going to say that Labour have gone negative but, actually, their campaign has, for any number of understandable reasons, been negative all along. Still, that reached a new low (or height) this evening with this advert, broadcast in Scotland only:
It’s impressively dishonest on many levels, not least because any decisions taken on Scottish NHS or education funding will be made in Edinburgh, not by any Conservative government in London. True, the block grant could be squeezed but this is true regardless of who is in power in London or who’s running Holyrood.
Indeed, one could make an argument that for any number of political and symbolic and Unionist reasons the Tories would be more, not less, reluctant than Labour to cut the Scottish budget even though, clearly, there’ll be pressure from the grass-roots to do so.
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