Promoted by Julia Marrs, South Lanarkshire Council, Almada Street, Hamilton, ML3 0AA

📢 Scotland’s 37 Labour MPs were elected on a promise of no austerity under Labour. ➡️ They could have voted to protect the some of the most vulnerable Scots, stopping the winter fuel payment cut in its tracks. ❌ Instead, they voted to toe the party line and impose the cut.

📺SLC parents' pleas for the safety of their children continues to get media coverage. This evening on STV News. 🚌"I'm worried my daughter's life could be put in danger when cuts to school bus services are put in force" 🗣️The Council declined an interview or to walk the route.

Labour have just voted through these school transport cuts, ignoring the expressed views of the parents and children of South Lanarkshire.

BREAKING: Labour promised change yet they have just voted against scrapping the two-child cap, a cruel policy that has impacted upon 1.6 million children, with an expected additional 670,000 affected if it remains in place. No child should be living in poverty.

On Wednesday the Labour - Lib Dem coalition pushed through a charge for uplifting garden waste. Inflicting yet another household bill on residents during a cost-of-living crisis was out of order. The SNP voted against.

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….The SNP alternative budget would have made no cuts to education or social work, provided greater funding for Leisure and Culture, and protected funding for third sector organisations such as Rape Crisis, Cancer Care, and Citizens Advice.”

LABOUR, TORIES AND LIB DEMS BLOCK SNP BUDGET SNP Group Leader, Cllr John Ross: “We are utterly stunned by the damage Joe Fagan’s Labour-Lib Dem administration has wrought on South Lanarkshire. There was no need whatsoever for the scale of the cuts and charges they have passed…

Pleased to join protesters against the proposal to cut school bus transport. I again reiterate my concern over this proposal both in terms of road safety & the ability to arrive at school ready to learn, walking up to 30miles/week. Offer your views @ https://t.co/fRJSFu8ToA....

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SLC is consulting on reducing secondary school bus transport to only those who live 3 miles or more from school. I have concerns for safety, lack of public buses & impact of walking up to 30 miles/week. Submit to the consultation closing 1st March 2024. https://t.co/SEB4jT9yOJ

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A belated Happy New Year to y' all! Delighted also to attend The Het Pint, on New Years day, when Lanark folk are offered a warm drink & pensioners can receive a real crisp £1 note. Weil dun to the Comm. Council, & to Gordon Gray for the pics. https://t.co/paEneOT3ML

Epic 'wean in a manger' and Santa is Scottish! from Auchengray Primary school, and the Christmas story accompanying Bony M!! Thank you so very much for all your talent and for bringing such Christmas spirit and joy to us tonight.

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☔️ We may not have had the weather but it was great to be out campaigning with the local team in Lanark today 🗣️ As the MP for Hamilton & Clyde Valley I will stand up for all our communities who have been left behind by the broken Westminster system #VoteSNP #ActiveSNP

Honoured to lay a wreath in Lanark and Cameronians today, with villages also remembered in previous days. Lest we forget

Was pleased to attend @MairiMcAllan and @AngelaCrawley30 cost of living event. As we approach a winter we know will be hard for so many, if you didn't manage along, you can still contact any of us for support via our offices.