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We appreciate the need for flexibility, particularly when the Executive is cutting new ground, but the Parliament should be in on such dramatic changes.
If we are trying to build a new Scotland, the attitude that there should be no compensation for some because we did not get it is not an attitude on which we can base a new democracy or a new nation.This has been a bad afternoon for the Parliament.
The principles that we are discussing today—a little indirectly—were aimed at setting up a new kind of relationship with the electorate and new forms of accountability.
Jack McConnell is actively involved in the strategy: he has visited China and has encouraged people from China to come to Scotland—he is active in developing the partnership.