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I think that that touches on the point that I made in response to Robert Brown. Today, we are saying that we fully acknowledge and recognise at the heart of Government that the health department and the justice department can contribute to solving this problem.
Patons, which used to employ 3,000 people, has now withdrawn, switching production to China—a sad reflection on Gordon Brown and his sterling policies, which have stopped exports and sucked in cheap imports.
To put it simply, the great British public does not trust the Government in London to deliver such a revenue-neutral scheme. They do not trust Gordon Brown to alter our taxation system in a fair way.
I suspect that the £800 million will be targeted at every marginal constituency in Scotland, but given how the opinion polls are going, the money will need to be widely spread, particularly if Gordon Brown and John Reid fight it out for the leadership.
Paragraph 19 suggests that we call Andrew Brown. Fine fellow though he is, I am not sure what he would add to what the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland would say.
In a society that is protected by the new Labour Tories, the old Tories and the SNP, individuals such as Lord Browne earn £15,000 a day, when 1.5 million Scots earn less than £15,000 a year.