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He identified the fact that, as a society, we seem to generate far more outrage and concern when there are deaths on the railways than we do when there are deaths on our roads. More than 3,000 people die on the roads in the UK each year.
I confess that we do not pay an awful lot of attention to that. When we buy an asset, we know what it will cost, but the issue is what it will cost to maintain over its lifetime.
I urge the Scottish Executive to promote that possibility for change. It should start from the top—the Government—and work down to business and individuals.
I say to John Home Robertson that £25 billion buys a lot of conventional weapons. I wonder whether his loyalist speech was his application to get into the House of Lords—he will no longer be able to buy a place there, because the SNP MPs have put a stop to that nonsense.Nicola Sturgeon raised the moral case against t...
I am particularly interested in the prospect of your putting some effort into asking what additional outcomes the £731 million can buy us and whether those outcomes are valid and sensible, given that buying power.
However, if he gives me his assurance that the Executive will do that survey and give us the information, I do not suppose that I will die in a ditch over that distinction.