SNP local income tax cover up gets murkier and murkier

The SNP's local income tax cover-up gets murkier and murkier, after an SNP press release on the subject issued this afternoon had to be retracted.

The initial release denied that a Scottish Government solicitor had used the term "lurid headlines" in relation to the SNP's bid to prevent a document on its local income tax becoming public.

Shortly afterwards, the SNP re-issued the statement without including that paragraph.

Annabel Goldie, Scottish Conservative Leader, said:

"This gets murkier and murkier. The SNP are being caught out left right and centre. First they deny the term 'lurid headlines' was from one of their own solicitors and then they are forced to retract this statement.

"There are serious questions for the SNP to answer now. They spend thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money trying to cover this up, prompting growing suspicions that more is being kept secret on other abandoned SNP policies. For example was the timing of the legal appeal designed to block any more information being revealed under FOI requests not just on Local Income Tax but other issues such as the SNP pledge to write off all student debt?

"As I said before, this smells of fish, fish, fish.

"It is clearer than ever before that Alex Salmond and the SNP need to be kept in check, and that's what I will continue to do."

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