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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.
I have no problem with projecting expectations of growth; I just do not see that it is politically sustainable to have a target for growth. Gordon Brown might or might not have made a stick with which to beat himself.
I urge the chamber to reject the motion for the electioneering nonsense that it is. I heeded what Robert Brown said, but whether the motion is election fluff or not, the system is in crisis.