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Cross Party Group Sport
This month Margo hosted speakers from the Sports Development Workforce. This proved to be an excellent meeting with many points being raised by the speakers which echoed discussions the Group have held recently.
Tory Debate in Parliament
I was thinking that an alternative title for this morning’s motion could have been “Half a loaf is better than no bread.” Then, I came up with a better one: “Forget Calman—Uriah Heep got it right.”
We will talk about the Calman proposals, as that is what the motion before us is about.
Sunday Post Column
HUNG PARLIAMENT. The warning screamed from the headlines and flashed on TV screens.
Reporters too young to remember the hung parliament of the Wilson years in Downing St. repeated ad nauseam that the UK hadn’t had one since Lloyd George was a boy…or something like that. In the hours following the counting of votes, gossip, an Exit Poll nobody believed, and misinformation on hung parliaments filled up the space on TV….
Read more about ‘Hung Parliament’
The Status of Scottish Parliament Elections
Margo lodged the following Motion in the Scottish Parliament today
That the Parliament believes that, in order to preserve the status of the Parliament in Edinburgh and the standards of operational accountability and transparency established by MSPs since 1999 and in view of the Parliament’s acceptance of the findings of the Independent Review of the Scottish Parliamentary and Local Government Elections, there is a need for amethod of holding any fixed-term Westminster elections that does not coincide with the dates set for the four-year, fixed-term Scottish Parliament elections.
Her Evening News column this weeks also deals with this very important issue.
East Lothian Fabian Society
Margo was guest speaker tonight at the AGM of East Lothian Fabian Society, who asked her to speak about her End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill.
