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Not everybody will need an advocate when they go through the process and simply to open advocacy up to everyone would disadvantage those who need it and put extra financial pressure on the Scottish Government and advocacy groups.
It suggests that the neighbouring landowner was at fault because it would not sell the business the extra land. That is a problem that all businesses face when they want to expand.
That unity of purpose in defending people at this time of great economic trouble is to be applauded. There would have been an extra vote if the leader of the “No” campaign in Scotland had not been going about the country stirring up antipathy instead of doing his duty.
I am happy to take on many roles in life, but I have not and do not expect to be asked to take on the role of a “Braveheart” extra, no matter how well suited I may be to it.
People on the front line—the charities that are working with drug users—are calling for an immediate extra £20 million in ring-fenced rehab funding, just to make up for the past 13 years of cuts.