Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.Responding to the councillor’s comments, Mid Scotland and Fife Tory MSP, Dean Lockhart, says that the SNP government possesses the power to introduce its own £20 uplift.
Mr Lockhart said: “The Scottish Government have the power to keep the £20 uplift if they wanted to but they won’t use it. This is nothing more than another cynical move by an SNP obsessed with creating friction to try and further independence.“Councillor MacPherson likes to pontificate on these matters, but as usual won’t dare ask his own party to take responsibility.
After 13 years of SNP government, people see through this well-worn ploy of blaming other people for his party’s lamentable track record.”It comes as a.
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