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SNP policy must avoid simply being a wish list of all the desirable things money could buy."Well, since the beginning of January, Kenny MacAskill has wanted more money for public libraries, rates relief and the main line station at Edinburgh airport; Richard Lochhead has asked for more money for a dental school and to fight drugs; and the list goes on and o...
The average householder would ameliorate such a situation by taking a mortgage and the average business would do so with a business loan, yet you tell me that that is impossible for Scottish Water, which means that the present generation will have to pay for the underinvestment. The example of a consumer who buys a new car—which is a standard purchase for w...
Mr Rumbles intervened to ask, "Does that mean that I will be able to go to my local supermarket and buy wine"—he did not say wine, but I assume that that is what he meant—"at any time of the day or night?"
It was right to start with Dundee, East Ayrshire and Glasgow and one of the Dunbartonshires.I am anxious that that can become a policy that extends around Scotland, the spending review permitting, because when we talk to people they tell us that it costs money to stay on in fifth and sixth year if you have to buy things such as printer cartridges or materia...
Aside from the donations that are received for specific items, we set up a trust equipment group, among other groups, to consider how best to utilise the money with the agreement of those who donate it. Buying medical equipment using moneys from the charitable fund has a significant benefit, in that we do not have to pay VAT on the equipment.
For example, I would like to take my two-year-old to a multiplex, to a bowling alley or elsewhere and be able to buy her a yoghurt.Finland has achieved that change—one can see that in shops, restaurants and workplaces.
Now Labour members know how we feel when they defend policies such as the right to buy, uniform business rates, school league tables, Scottish Enterprise, privatisation of air traffic control, PFI and the retention of prescription charges.
Since Labour took the driving seat at the Treasury, pump prices have increased by 25 per cent. Every time we buy a gallon of fuel, £3 goes to the Treasury.
East Lothian Council has had to spend millions of pounds buying back former council houses that were sold at a discount under the right to buy and which have to be bought back at the full market value.