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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.
Perhaps HECA is not past its sell-by date, but over the years local authorities have become more acutely aware that perhaps their starting point was wrong.
One issue that has crossed my mind in the context of townscapes and shops is that of gap sites, possible vested interests and land banks. The ownership of land in town centres is a controversial issue that is increasingly being talked about in Scotland's towns.
Last year, for example, we had the ridiculous situation of South Ayrshire Council loaning £4 million to Birmingham City Council at a rate of interest that was half the standard bank rate. That would not have happened had there been proper community oversight.
As every member knows, Scottish civic society is teeming with charitable organisations, many of them religious, which are engaged in all sorts of social activities in their communities such as food banks, homelessness services or debt advice.It is also the case that many of those charities, due to their ethos, would not be supportive of same-sex marriage.
I do not know how brief the answer will be, but we will see.I ask the question partly because, at a later date, the committee will look at what powers local government should have in future.
Although much of the focus was on students and the graduates who emerge from the higher and further education systems, there is a relevant parallel to be drawn. Stephen Boyle, of Royal Bank of Scotland, said:“The human capital challenge emerges not with more highly skilled people but with those who do jobs requiring lower levels of skills and qualifications...
Every time Labour has been in power in London and has had its hands on the levers of economic power, the consequences have been devaluation, winters of discontent, financial and banking crisis and so on, and, ultimately, the people who have suffered have been the young.We now reap what has been sowed: crisis management, emergency responses and a lack of lon...