Category: Helensburgh
SNP AND TORIES JOIN FORCES TO ENFORCE BENEFIT TESTS
Jackie Baillie MSP voted with her Scottish Labour colleagues on Wednesday to scrap this 20 metre walking test, as it fails to capture the reality of someone’s disability, but the proposal fell due to SNP and Tory MSPs voting together to ensure that the degrading test remained.
FARAGE TO FIELD BREXIT CANDIDATES IN LOCAL SEATS THREAT
The Brexit Party leader set a deadline of two weeks – until 14 November – for Mr Johnson to agree, or else he vowed to unleash his candidates in every seat in England, Scotland and Wales. This, of course, includes West Dunbartonshire and Argyll and Bute where Martin Docherty Hughes and Brendan O’Hara are the sitting MPs.
TRANSPARENCY AND CONSULTATION NEEDED BEFORE CHANGES ARE MADE
This blatant unwillingness to be open with the public, is the latest in a series of events which demonstrates the secrecy and lack of transparency from the health board about their future plans for local health services.
Just last year, the health board was intent on removing breast cancer services from the Vale, until Jackie Baillie discovered that there was no consultation with any women from the area. At the time 13 women were consulted about the changes and all of them came from Paisley.