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A new report by the Resolution Foundation has revealed the average household will be £2,100 worse off by the end of next financial year, leaving households worse off than before the covid-19
pandemic until 2028 and more than six million households reporting they are going hungry as a result. This Westminster made cost-of-living crisis is worsening under the Tories watch. > 🚨
Rishi Sunak had the chance today to offer the people of > Scotland hope. Instead, he choose to repeat the same-old Westminster > rhetoric. > > 📢 Scotland deserves better than
this out-of-touch Westminster > system. It’s time for Independence. pic.twitter.com/VZdQY0uvHc > > — The SNP (@theSNP) January 4, 2023 WITH THE TORY COST OF LIVING CRISIS
WORSENING, IT WOULD BE UNTHINKABLE FOR RISHI SUNAK TO SLASH SUPPORT FOR HOUSEHOLDS JUST AS ENERGY BILLS ARE SET TO RISE JUST AS HE CUT UNIVERSAL CREDIT BY £1,040 DURING HIS TIME AS
CHANCELLOR. Millions of families have seen their incomes hammered as a result of Tory cuts, Brexit price rises and soaring inflation. This is a crisis made at Westminster, and the
Westminster government needs to take action to mitigate the damage it has done to people’s incomes. The £400 Energy Bill Support Scheme must be extended beyond April, to help households with
rising bills, and the UK government must follow the lead of the SNP Scottish Government in improving public sector pay deals, and matching the Scottish Child Payment across the UK, to put
money back in people’s pockets. The Prime Minister must guarantee the £400 Energy Bills Support Scheme will continue after April, and to look at other ways to boost household incomes,
including improving UK government pay deals for public sector workers and matching the SNP government’s Scottish Child Payment of £25 per child per week. > 🤝 While @scotgov negotiates
fair pay deals for workers, the > Tories are stoking division. > > 📣 @KirstySNP: “Across these islands, people are suffering > because of the woefully inadequate policies of
this UK Tory > government.” > > 🏴 Let’s build a fairer Scotland with > independence. pic.twitter.com/lxvpXgBhBG > > — The SNP (@theSNP) December 14, 2022 PEOPLE
ACROSS SCOTLAND ARE PAYING AN UNACCEPTABLE PRICE FOR WESTMINSTER FAILURE. The fact that the Tories have trashed the economy, and household incomes, so badly shows exactly why Scotland needs
to become an independent country to escape Westminster control and secure a more prosperous future. As an independent country, Scotland would no longer have to rely on Westminster
governments to make the right decisions for the people of Scotland. We would always get the governments we vote for, acting in the best interests of all people who live in Scotland. We would
be able to end Westminster’s failed austerity approach, fully tackle this cost-of-living crisis and build a better, fairer, greener European future. ALL OF THAT, AND MORE, IS ONLY POSSIBLE
WITH THE FULL POWERS OF INDEPENDENCE.