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—Neil Gray 16:41 Today, we are being asked to write what is in effect a blank cheque to make it easier to choose to die than to live. I do not believe that voting to do that is a neutral act—it has consequences.
It is true that they have had their difficulties with Brexit and Covid and have not had their troubles to seek, but they also have some big asks of us. Top of the list for farmers, quite rightly, is that they want us to buy local.
For example, Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra obtained some funding to buy expensive larger saxophones so that it could lend them to members who would not have been able to afford to buy them.
An emphasis placed on women entrepreneurs to ensure that local communities are involved in the setting up and growing businesses for example, buy local, involve local supply chains and encourage inclusive and sustainable business models.
Perhaps most significantly, the Bill aimed to extend to urban areas the community right to buy which had been established for rural areas a decade earlier.