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The workload for remaining staff sometimes doubles or triples, and they are not growing arms or legs or getting 15 minutes extra in the day—if anything, they are getting less time to do more work.
In 1982, while I was serving, I had a bad accident that led to 20 per cent disablement in my right leg. For many years, I have campaigned to get a concessionary travel pass not just for me but for every war veteran who is in receipt of a war disablement pension.
It came up in discussion that someone might break their leg a few weeks before the games, for example, and they might not have highlighted that as a concern.
There is nothing worse for a software engineer who is trying to design a system than to discover that it is growing arms and legs as they work through the process and the difficulties that that can cause.
I am now one of the faces of the campaign, which has grown arms and legs. I also overcame about a one in 251,000 chance of becoming the National Union of Students Scotland’s student of the year—me, who was on my third chance at further education.
You will know that diabetes is the main cause of blindness in people of working age and that half the non-traumatic leg amputations that are carried out are a result of diabetes.
Yesterday, Mr MacAskill did indeed have to come before the Parliament, his tail between his legs, and make embarrassing admissions about the absconding prisoner Brian Martin.
We do not currently have a situation in which the first leg can be completed and the second leg is completed years later—it all happens on the same day.There will—or should—be that visibility in the returns process to enable people to see that the same property has gone from A to B to C on the same day.