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Many of Scotland's pensioners buy their clothes in charity shops.The central heating programme is welcome, but what is its point if people cannot afford to switch on the heating?
I know perfectly well that the media can make an enormous amount out of a supposed doubling of money by an MSP who buys a property and then sells it for enormous gain.
I hope that you will also seek to involve communities in that discussion so that there is buy-in. Absolutely. I am sure that if our approach is explained in the right way, we would get not only buy-in, but enthusiastic support for those ideas from communities.
Obviously, the work that has been done at Motherwell since the club came out of administration has been terrific. The idea of buying shares to get a director is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
People whom I have met recently tell me that, at one specific petrol station, they saw one person buying 140 gallons of fuel in a car and in various jerricans.