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As I said earlier, I have been a farmer all my days and I have tail docked thousands of pigs in my time. I have never known a pig to die because of tail docking and I have a long number of years’ experience of doing it.
What Labour got wrong was insisting that housing stock transfer in Glasgow must be done en masse and bypass local community housing associations, and Labour should be ashamed of that fact.
Members will be aware that health inequalities in Scotland are wider than they are anywhere else in western and central Europe, and that thousands of people die prematurely as a result of those inequalities.
More than 50 per cent of older men in hospital will die within a year, but they are not necessarily being advocated for or signposted for palliative care.