DIVIDE BETWEEN RICH AND POOR IN BRITAIN CONTINUES TO GROW

Despite ten years of Labour rule at UK level and Labour domination of almost every council and their control of the Scottish Executive (with the Lib Dems) the gap between rich and poor continues to grow ever larger.

Labour have failed to make any difference in the situation of the working class because they have sold out to Conservatism. The Blair Government was more right wing than the John Major Government and spent considerably less on health and education. Labour have failed to deliver any improvement in the circumstances of the poor throughout the UK, and have made no impact whatsoever in Scotland.

As the figures released today by the Scottish Executive reveal the situation has actually got worse. The obvious answer isn't the Conservatives under David Cameron (Tony Blair mark II with a nicer smile but the same right wing policies).

No, the answer is independence and a fairer socialist or at least social democratic Government afterwards.