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The issue matters because, today, again, the First Minister has confirmed that, after the general election, the Scottish Government wants to get rid of the block grant and use oil to pay for Scotland’s schools and hospitals.
At that point, the big four controlled somewhere between two thirds and three quarters of the retail sector in this country; their share is now getting close to 90 per cent, and it is still expanding.
The First Minister says that we should vote for independence to get away from the Tories’ destructive policies, and yet he is committing an independent Scotland to the same tax rates that the Tories set—Interruption.
It is not a question of people not wanting to insure their houses; they cannot get the insurance. Can the Government do anything to help people in the future who simply cannot get commercial insurance in such circumstances?
I would like us to keep the petitions open to enable us to get definitive dates from Transport Scotland and Clackmannanshire Council on when the mitigation works are likely to commence and whether they will satisfy the residents who live along the line.I take on board Bill Walker’s comment that, although the railway line was derelict, it was still there and...