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"Mr President, Tony Blair and Donald Dewar will not have slept well last night! Their worst nightmares have turned out to be reality. The Labour Party heartlands of Scotland have sent them an unmistakable message. The Scottish Labour voter – for so long taken for granted – has spoken. The Scottish Conservative Party candidate in Ayr, John Scott, has humiliated Labour into third place – 5 000 or more votes behind.
This will only get worse for Labour when the truth about their incompetent and cynical administration of the European Union's Structural Funds becomes better known and better understood. Because of the Labour Government's tardiness in submitting its proposed maps nine months late in December instead of March last year, it is still struggling to come up with acceptable specific projects. Scottish local authorities are left not knowing whether or not the projects which they are having to underwrite will indeed obtain Structural Fund support.
Commissioner: three questions:
When do you expect to be able to provide certainty for the Scottish regions and the badly needed projects which are looking for EU support? Are you satisfied with the preparedness of the Scottish Executive to provide the necessary matching funding and to assure you that it is truly additional? Or is it all just the usual Labour/Liberal coalition hot air, all mouth, while feet drag along the cobbled streets of Edinburgh and European money is hijacked by the Treasury in London?"@en1
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