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I hardly expect the country's teachers, police officers or unemployed to sympathise with the financial concerns of the legal profession, but it is not the bank balances of individual lawyers that concern me and my party.
Crucially, will funding remain in our fishing communities or will it in some cases return to the banks to deal with bank debt? This looks a very difficult year.
We are thinking about a five-year period, during which I suspect that interest rates will stay low—that is what the governor of the Bank of England is telling us—and corporate spreads will come down.
I think not.As the representative of a community that for many years now has been subject to significant and on-going change, from ships on the Clyde to banks on the Clyde and from building ships to microchips, I understand the need for change.
The Government is already on the case, because the matter was flagged up to me by Stephen Pearson, the head of legal services at the Royal Bank of Scotland, which, after all, is our single largest institution here in Scotland.
We have also heard of lots of people who, when they take holidays back to Poland or whichever country they are from, are told that they will be paid for the holiday but, when they get back, their employer says, “No, I never agreed to that.”
As Mr Aitken was commenting on such low-value cases, I noticed his fat, juicy wallet stuffed with bank notes, and I had to wonder what he actually meant by low-value cases.
There has been no writing of blank cheques, either on our own bank account or anyone else’s. We have not simply rubber-stamped the recommendations that came from the Scottish Law Commission; still less have we taken those recommendations and loosened them.
The guidance gives information about the different methods, and the code makes it clear that the selection panel can choose whatever is appropriate.I also envisage that the requirement to review, at the end of a round, whether the methods chosen were appropriate would tie in well with “Diversity Delivers”, which talks about establishing an information bank ...
On the video that Mr Fleeting has released, he says that we have gone to Brazil, Germany and other places and taken a wee bit from there and we are making that the way forward. Try selling that to a bank as a business plan.