Is THIS Austerity in Scotland?
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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today the Scottish government has confirmed up to £500 million of spending cuts to help balance the books ahead of the autumn statement.
Scotland’s Finance Secretary Shona Robinson said financial mismanagement of the previous UK government and continuing Labour austerity are to blame for the pressures. But could the SNP have done more to prevent the cuts? And will there be more to come when the full Scottish budget arrives in December? Adam and Chris are joined by the BBC’s Scotland Editor James Cook.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | We're recording this episode of newscast at 20 past 6, |
| 0:07.9 | which means Chris has done all his broadcasting for the afternoon. |
| 0:11.1 | Indeed, hello? |
| 0:12.4 | And James Cook has just done a momentous thing in the afternoon. Indeed, hello. And James Cook has just done a momentous |
| 0:14.4 | thing in the life of any broadcast journalist James explain. Oh I'm actually |
| 0:19.0 | shaking. I could actually feel my heart going boom boom boom and I have just come off air from and it seems so so |
| 0:27.3 | silly because we do millions of lives how many live broadcasts have we all done but I've just come |
| 0:31.2 | off air from the radio 4 6 PM news bulletin which we |
| 0:34.4 | call the 1800 which is the sort of pinnacle gold standard bulletin of record and I was |
| 0:40.6 | live on it and you're never live on it early that's not true you two have probably been live on it many times but I haven't and it was stressful |
| 0:46.7 | Yeah, it's that thing isn't it just to explain to newscasters because the vast majority of the reports most of the time are very carefully written, very carefully edited, |
| 0:56.6 | and then very carefully read out. There is an expectation of perfection. And of course, when you're doing |
| 1:02.3 | something live, there's a high probability |
| 1:05.1 | you're gonna trip over yourself and and stumble and all that kind of stuff I |
| 1:10.0 | always insist you know what I do those that they say in the little line introducing me Chris Mason I always think |
| 1:13.0 | line introducing me |
| 1:14.0 | Chris Mason reporting live which I always think hopefully means |
| 1:17.4 | brackets he might foul it up |
| 1:19.0 | gives me an excuse me there |
| 1:20.6 | live from Edinburgh I thought I thought as they said it even though I was focusing on the |
| 1:25.1 | script I thought they're only saying that in case I've messed this up. |
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