SCOTTISH LABOUR will be campaigning against the proposed cuts to working tax credits this Saturday from 11am till 1.30pm at Market Square Galashiels.

Local Labour party spokesperson Barrie Cunning said “The conservative government is hell bent on destroying the welfare state and in turn the people who need our help the most. The Conservative government is so out of touch that they honestly believe that employers will pick up the tab and as a result Britain will be a high wage/low state economy but the reality is that people may not be able to afford to work and in turn live. Clearly when the tories talk about making work pay it’s on their terms, and their terms only.”

 In Scotland 370,000 households will be affected by cuts to tax credits of which more than 140,000 are single parent families and in the Borders a family with three children earning £20,000 per anum will be £2,184.20 worse off per year.

Mr Cunning, who is CLP Secretary for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire continued: "We must do everything we can to stop these cuts from going ahead and the only party that’s standing up for working families in the Borders is the Scottish Labour party and I encourage everyone to come down and campaign with us."