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The truth is that the issue is not the First Minister’s evident cynicism, which we have seen in the past, but his infatuation with very rich men.First, the First Minister gave his office’s full backing to the then Sir Fred Goodwin in a deal that broke the bank. Who can forget—Interruption. Order.
I have here a letter from December 2017 in which the Cabinet Secretary for Justice promised me that he would publish in January 2018 statistics on school exclusions for carrying weapons. As of today’s date, those statistics have not been published.
The following table shows the number of substantive staff still to be assimilated, the number of bank staff still to be assimilated and the number of staff who have been assimilated but are still waiting for payment of arrears.
We hear many rural landlords saying that it is no longer a viable business proposition for them to continue to operate—they switch to holiday lets or in some extreme cases just leave the properties empty.
We are in a strange period with regard to the independence of the central bank, but there is unquestionably an issue with the balance between monetary and fiscal policy.
Here is an opportunity to use a rights-based approach where the state has the responsibility to ensure that there is not an explosion of food banks, of which there are about 50 or 60 in Glasgow.