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Anyone who expresses a view on that may be wrong, but one does one’s best. When I read the order and the evidence that the committee heard last week, I was struck by the fact that a great deal of thought has gone into this.
That is the way forward. I honestly believe that the best way to proceed is to bring people on board and to get things done from the ground up, using local stakeholders, rather than impose something on them.
I did think about getting a farmer to supply me with a hundred rats to throw in. Perhaps it would be best not to go there.We can all identify areas of land in our constituencies that have been virtually abandoned and are lying untended and unkempt.
That might give us a chance to alert them to that issue in particular, so that they can involve themselves in a discussion with the UK Government before they come to talk to us about how the process can best be managed. I think that that would probably be a good way to proceed.
The Scottish Wildfire Forum is discussing best practice in that area, but that will need to be coupled with the evidence base and the on-going monitoring of effectiveness.
There is a bigger issue at play than reporting your neighbour because they are not using their croft. People are doing their best. Most people are doing their best.