Better jobs. Better investment in life's essentials. Better social security. Scotland needs change. And we need it now.

In Citizens Advice Bureaux across Scotland, our advisers witness daily the depths of harm that hundreds of thousands of us are forced to endure. Last year alone, our network provided life-changing advice to almost 200,000 people facing impossible circumstances.

Families cut off from life's essentials, frightened of what the future will bring. People who are hungry, or are without a home, or sacrificing meals, dreading winter due to heating costs, or struggling to get by on wages that don’t cover household costs.

Enough. After more than a decade of austerity and perma-crisis too many of us are feeling tired, angry, isolated, and disillusioned. We’re not prepared to continue to accept this.

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