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I suggest to you—I am sure that you have similar experiences as a constituency member—that when an MSP’s office sends a letter or an email that simply says, “Mrs Mason has not been able to get treatment at the right time—she is coming all the way from Shetland.
—Official Report, Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee, 28 June 2017; c 7. Some MSPs who were commenting yesterday as if they had no idea about this work were present at that committee session.
It certainly highlighted the responsibility that we as MSPs carry in this place and how the decisions that we make and the discussions that we have can have a profound effect on the lives of others.
I have campaigned enthusiastically for many years, first as a councillor on Argyll and Bute Council and now as an MSP for West Scotland, to ensure that veterans’ issues are not overlooked.
Alasdair Allan talks of negative rhetoric and I have four quotes right here—one from a Scottish National Party MSP, one from an SNP MP, one from an SNP councillor and one from an SNP aide.