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Your submission states:"It ignores the important concept of personal responsibility and adopts the outdated notion that ‘nanny knows best'."Does nanny know best about making people wear seat belts?
I am sorry about the disruption, Gordon. Try your best to continue where you left off. I was saying that, in our pre-planning for the elections, we must make a number of assumptions, one of which is that the boundaries for the new wards will follow the provisional proposals of the Local Government Boundary Commission...
They should not come here, week after week, advocating additional spending and then, when the opportunity comes for a cheap and easy headline, advocate tax cuts that would not match up to the spending that we desire and which they claim to want too.
Those new powers of community initiative and community planning will help to deliver renewed and self-confident communities.We have a third objective: best value.
The committee has received a further response from the petitioner, in which she states:"We have asked for a meeting with the new Communities Minister, Malcolm Chisholm MSP, as a matter of urgency, but have been advised this is unlikely to take place until after the New Year."
If any one else has a problem with Tuesday afternoons they should flag that up over the next few days and I will do my best to battle with the conveners group.
Succeeding generations must recognise what was put into the croft to make it what it is.Perhaps the Crofters Commission has a weakness now that did not previously exist, because houses are being allowed to be built on the best-quality land. A brand new house was built for the current tenant of the croft on one of the best-quality fields that my grandfather drained, when it could have been built on the rubbish land a few metres away.