Report to the People
8th January 2007
Happy
New Year
The decorations have come
down, your waist has gone out and your credit card bills have gone through the
roof. It must be the New Year right
enough.
The one thing to which your
mind turns at this time of year (apart from pies, puddings and
all the other things beginning with P you can’t have thanks to the lettuce and
mineral water diet you foolishly promised to go on) is what the twelve months
ahead hold for you.
One thing you will definitely
be able to do this year is pass judgement on how I as your MSP and how the local
councillors have performed over the last four years. But,
before we can even think about the fun and games of the election trail,
there’s a heavy legislative programme to get through.
We have to complete the Bill
which will end the current crazy system of automatic and often unconditional
early release for prisoners. It will
also impose new curbs on the sale of non-domestic knives.
And we’ll be pressing hard
to get the mesothelioma compensation Bill onto the statute books before the
parliamentary session ends on 3rd April.
This will end the scandalous situation whereby sufferers of this horrible
asbestos-related cancer face the distressing dilemma of either settling their
damages claim while alive, or not settling their claim before death so that
their relatives can claim a greater award.
2007, then, will rightly
begin with more efforts at Holyrood to make communities like ours safer and
fairer.
Happy New Year!
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