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MARK Smith proposes a three-part personality test in which – in his opinion – Nicola Sturgeon is starting to fail ( The three-part personality test that Sturgeon is starting to fail , The Herald, March 8). This test focuses on performance/presentation, competence (vision/managerial efficiency) and trust. Mr Smith suggests that there are signs of wear and tear in the area of trust and honesty and that these, once they have been eroded, may be difficult to recover. He runs three previous Prime Ministers – Gordon Brown, Theresa May and Tony Blair – through his test parameters and suggests that each had serious failings on one or other dimension: Mr Brown on competence, Mrs May on competence and performance, and Mr Blair on honesty. ....
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THE RICH PAY MORE TAX, WE ALL BENEFIT JUST how long are we going to accept increased poverty (including in-work poverty), foodbanks, homelessness, zero working hours, poor health, anti-trade union laws, nuclear weapons, reactionary economic and social policies, the lowest benefit support in Western Europe, and all the horrendous ways that inequality impact negatively on our people? How long are people going to continue to blame those groups of people who they deem to be less worthy than themselves – e.g., immigrants, asylum seekers, the unemployed, the sick, when we should be supporting them and be looking at those who actually caused the mess we are in? ....
Scottish Labour leadership contender Monica Lennon has called for devo max to be an option on any future independence referendum ballot paper HERE comes yet another Scottish Labour leadership contest where the two candidates deny the people’s right to choose their own future ( Lennon says Labour should push for Devo Max not block Indyref2 , The Herald, January 19). Devo Max, medium or lite – it all comes down to Scotland being ruled by another country’s government. This Sir Keir Starmer-backed solution means Westminster would control defence and foreign policy so Scotland will continue to be saddled with nuclear weapons on our soil, be forced into foreign wars, have no control over trade or immigration, and have to remain outside the European free trade area. Westminster would continue to set the pension rate, which is the lowest in the OECD, and impose further penury on the population through Universal Credit and the bedroom tax. And most significantly, Westmi ....