Proceeding contribution from Mike Weir (Scottish National Party) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 23 April 2009. It occurred during Budget debate on Amendment of the law.
Amendment of the law
Before the right hon. Gentleman moves on, I should say that the two Front Benchers have had a totally artificial argument about cuts this afternoon. The truth is that both of them are cutting. Although the Secretary of State says that there are no cuts, £1 billion is coming off the Scottish budget over the next two years, and similar things are happening in Wales and Northern Ireland. That has been said by the First Ministers of the two devolved Administrations. Is it not a fact that the right hon. Gentleman's Government are cutting just as the Conservatives did, and that the sooner Scotland gets out of the Union, the better?
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