Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Tuesday 8th April) slammed Labour's abolition of the 10p rate of income tax and its clear "abandoning of the low paid - a sad reflection of what the Labour Party stands for today."
The Labour-dominated Treasury select committee criticised the chancellor, Alistair Darling, for failing to soften the blow which last year's tax simplification - coming into effect this week - will have on people below the age of 60 and earning less than £18,500 a year.
Here in Dundee, LibDem City Council Group Leader, Cllr Fraser Macpherson, said, "It is a sad state of affairs when this disintegrating Labour government hits the pockets of five million of the least affluent citizens. Gordon Brown is proving to be a Prime Minister incapable of understanding the public mood."