Raise taxes.

Adam McVey, the SNP Leader of Edinburgh Council was on the STV news programme at 10:30 last night. Go watch it on the STV player.  Everyone should watch the leader of the council of our Capital city had to say.   

The conversation was on whether Edinburgh should introduce a tourist tax.  Now, this is not an unusual thing as anyone who has visited Rome or Barcelona or many other cities around continental Europe will attest to.  It was his justification that was quite remarkable.   

For when it came to the crunch question, “What will you be spending the money on?”, gulp, you could see the panic on the face of Mr McVey.   

Well, he said, that’s why we are doing a consultation; to find out what people think we should spend the money on.  That is a paraphrase of a longer panicked answer.  But the truth was, he didn’t know.   

So, this is how the SNP works.  Say we need more money to fix an issue that they haven’t identified.  Raise the money through taxation.  Then work out where to spend it.  That is what he said.  So no logic whatsoever.  No saying this is what the problem is.  No saying this is what we need to do to fix it. No saying this is what it will cost to fix it.  And no saying this is the amount of money we need to raise in taxation in order to fix it.   

This is the lunacy that is running and destroying Scotland.