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We are given a salutary reminder in The Scotsman of this morning, following the publication by the United Nations "of the most authoritative assessment yet of the crisis facing mankind.
Such a market will greatly damage the cohesion of crofting communities and could pose problems for the trusts, which became community landlords following the enactment of the crofting right to buy.We urgently need to deal with planning.
We are talking about dealing with people who have been encouraged by Parliament to purchase their crofts and who have no rules to follow. Now we are giving them the rules.
It is in the explanatory notes, but of course there is no follow through to actual delivery. The bill would take away from our locally elected representatives the power to set council tax levels.
People should not start out at lower grades because they are disabled. Following that, I am interested in the support that is currently available to disabled people.
The single most important reason for their moving out of the NHS was finance, which was followed closely by lack of time. The flight from the NHS has led to other obvious consequences.