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The bricklayer said, “I’m not responsible for buying the ties and I can’t just stand around because I’m being paid for the number of bricks I lay, so I’m going to lay the bricks anyway.”
They make laws—yes, from time to time they are supposed to make laws—and they hold the Government of the day to account by scrutinising its policies, decisions and actions.
However, it is important to close these petitions, because it allows the petitioners to consider what has happened—or not—and to take into account the bills and so on in a new Government’s programme for government.
It has to be a positive rate of return, and it has to be achievable over the long term. It also needs to take into account the risk reward. We really need to do some work on that.
The reality is that, on council tax, everyone is wrestling with how to have fair local taxation that is locally accountable. All parties in the Parliament and beyond are wrestling with that.
However, the part of the business that I am accountable for, which is manufacturing and operations, is still quite male dominated in some particular areas of production.