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Policy
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Comment
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| The traditional
first-part-the-post system will be replaced in time for
the next council elections in 2007. A single transferable
vote (STV) system of PR, which will create multi-member
wards represented by three or four members, is planned
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This will improve democracy at the local level.
But will it encourage people to participate in that
democracy?
The best thing about this bill is that the entrenched
and corrupt labour administrations that have ruled the
roost in much of West and Central Scotland will be challenged.
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| Parental
orders will be introduced as part of Labour's plans to
crack down on youth crime. The sentence for breaking a
parental order will either be a fine or a community-based
punishment - and even if the fine is not paid the parent
will not be sent to jail in the first instance |
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So, this is a big idea?
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| The sale
of spray paint to the under-16s will be banned |
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300
years of struggle to get a Scottish Parliament ..... For
this ? |
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| Fast-track
youth courts will be introduced |
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Aye,
see the parental orders above. |
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| School
tests for five to 14-year-olds will be scrapped while
also "simplifying and reducing assessment" |
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Give
me strength. Where is the vision? |
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| Class
sizes will be reduced to 20 for maths and English in S1
and S2 |
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Good,
but where's the vision? |
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| Less formal
teaching methods will be introduced in primary one |
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Fuck naw. No more rule changes dressed up as politics.
This is tinkering around at the edges.
Politics of command and control not of any kind of
meaningful change.
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| A total
of 200 schools will be built or refurbished by 2006, rising
to 300 by 2009 |
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And
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| Teacher
numbers will rise to 53,000 by 2007 |
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Good. |
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| Free eye
and dental checks for all will be introduced before 2007
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We're
still waiting for the bigger vision thing. |
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| The recruitment
of 12,000 new NHS nurses by 2007 |
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Aye,
but how many are going to leave. Is this a net gain? |
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| Health
trusts will be scrapped |
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Politicians
have been fucking about with the NHS for 50 years. Leave
it alone and give the buggers time to settle down. |
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| Tolls
will be abolished on the Skye Bridge - as long as the
terms for buying back the structure are right |
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That's going to make a huge difference to the quality
of life in Easterhouse.
But, well done Robbie the Pict!!
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| The number
of households living in fuel poverty will be reduced by
30% by 2006 |
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What about the other 70%?
Now, that would be a vision.
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| Local
authorities given a target of recycling 25% of waste by
2006. |
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Well seen that the Greens got a few more seats.
This is one of those cynical sops done in the hope
that the electorate won't vote Green next time 'cos
"look how green we are".
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That's
it |
