JIM Murphy will again focus on the SNP's plan to have Holyrood raise and spend all of its own cash when he campaigns in Hamilton today.
The Scottish Labour Leader, who will speak to an audience of apprentices, will outline a £1 billion plan to invest in young people, including offering a guaranteed job or training place to 18 to 24-year-olds.
However, he will warn that a vote for the SNP puts existing provision at risk, not to mention his own proposed package that would be brought in if he becomes First Minister. It has been forecast that currently full fiscal autonomy, which the SNP would push for at Westminster, would blow a £7.6 billion black hole in Scotland's budget.
Scottish Labour have proposed offering £1,600 to every 18 and 19-year-old not in education or an apprenticeship, an increase in college funding and a £1,000 increase in bursaries for Scottish students from low income families.
Mr Murphy said: "In a few weeks Scotland will either get a Tory Government determined to turn the clocks back on our young people, or a Labour Government that will hit fast forward on opportunities for the next generation.
"A vote for the SNP simply gives David Cameron a chance to hang on in power, and sets a trap for further austerity for Scotland through their full fiscal fantasy.
"The SNP's plan is to cut Scotland off from taxes raised elsewhere in the UK. That means Labour's better plan to invest £1 billion in our young people from UK-wide taxes like the Bankers' Bonus tax would be turned back at the border, whilst a £7.6 billion black hole would be blown in our finances."
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