From pfi debt to brexit: the price for labour policies

Across Scotland, communities and taxpayers are still forced to pay the cost of a Labour government – even 16 years after they got kicked out of office. Keir Starmer’s Labour is lurching to

the right and adopting one Tory policy after another, as well as backing a hard Brexit for which we’re all forced to pay the price. However, Labour’s tendency to parrot Tory policies

actually dates back decades. PFI is just one example. ------------------------- SCOTTISH LABOUR’S PFI DISASTER RESULTED IN A £30 BILLION BILL FOR SCOTTISH TAXPAYERS The Private Finance

Initiative (PFI) – where public sector bodies pay private corporations to build and manage new facilities, such as schools or hospitals – was first introduced by the UK Tory government in

1990. Fully embraced by Labour on the UK and on the Scottish level, THE WASTEFUL PFI DEALS HAVE FOOTED A £30 BILLION REPAYMENTS BILL ON SCOTTISH TAXPAYERS – forcing us all to pay many times

more the original cost of the projects. All of this is money that could be diverted to our public services or to tackling the Tory cost of living crisis. The SNP is doing all it can to

reverse the damage – for example, we’ve scrapped hospital car parking charges which were in place because of PFI deals – but Labour’s long legacy of financial mismanagement means that

councils and taxpayers have to keep footing the PFI bills for years to come. > 🏥 Hospital parking charges in Scotland are being abolished for > good. >  > 🚗 Car parks in Dundee 

and Glasgow have been taken into public > hands, with talks at an advanced stage at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. >  > 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The SNP are ending the legacy of PFI in > hospital car

 parks in Scotland. pic.twitter.com/oUeab9E19W >  > — The SNP (@theSNP) August 24, 2021 PFI REPAYMENTS ARE INCREASING BY AN EXTRA £1 MILLION EVERY WEEK Scotland continues paying

extortionate amounts for Labour incompetence, as the COST TO THE PUBLIC PURSE BALLOONED BY AN EXTRA £1 MILLION EVERY WEEK in just the last year alone. £1 million a week is the equivalent of

the salaries of around 1,400 nurses. It has been recently confirmed that the amount still owed under PFI for hospitals and schools is still £15.4 billion – meaning that not even the half of

Labour’s eye-watering total PFI bill has been repaid. Worse still, the Scottish Labour politicians who cooked up these calamitous PFI contracts have agreed to index the repayments to

inflation – meaning that as the UK’s inflation rate skyrockets, so do the bloated profits of private companies benefitting from PFI. > ❌ Labour's record on PFI contracts is nothing 

but a con trick – > even the Scottish Labour leader says so. >  > 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Under the SNP, we've ended the use > Tory/Labour PFIs to fund schools and hospitals, and we are 

committed > to a publicly-run, publicly-delivered NHS. #FMQs > pic.twitter.com/DkmIcrxGDE >  > — The SNP (@theSNP) January 30, 2020