Murdo Fraser MSP has slammed the SNP-run Perth and Kinross Council and the SNP Government for “economic incompetence” which could mean cuts to many local services, including the possible closure of the Dewars Centre, Perth Leisure Centre and Bell’s Sports Centre in Perth.
My email inbox was full of Mid Scotland and Fife residents who were furious at Perth and Kinross Council’s proposed plan to axe curling and swimming from their long-term plans.
It is increasingly apparent from my meetings with farmers and agricultural workers that they feel more distant and excluded from policy decisions than ever before.
In all my years in the Scottish Parliament, I have not witnessed such universal criticism of a Scottish Government Budget. Almost on a daily basis, stakeholders – particularly those in business and local government – have been lining up to criticise the Scottish Government’s Budget choices.
Perthshire Conservatives have welcomed funding of more than half a million pounds being given to Blairgowrie and Rattray Community Football Trust from the UK Government.
Murdo Fraser MSP has said the SNP Government have let down residents in Mid Scotland and Fife with their “painfully slow” roll-out of their flagship R100 broadband programme.
On Saturday 27 January 2024, Minister of State for Security, Tom Tugendhat MP, joined Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party MP candidate, Luke Graham, in Perth and Kinross-shire district.
Scottish Conservative MSPs Liz Smith and Murdo Fraser are pushing for an international size ice rink to be built in Perth as part of the local authority’s PH2O plan.
