Dear All
A bit of sense has popped up on the horizon.
First Minister Alex Salmond is to have a free hand in the number of politically-appointed government advisers he can make.
I would hope that the SNP take this opportunity to get some more, ‘people persons’ with commonsense, that wouldn’t go a miss as cheesegate which is further imploding and making the Scottish National Party look ridiculous.
There is now a Police investigation with talk of blackmail and extortion being banded about.
This continued bad publicity will kill chances of SNP Westminister Candidates being elected in 2010 and the referendum will suffer too.
In an odd visit from her cave, the disgraced Labour MSP Wendy Alexander has cast comment.
Her squealing offering on the move is that she believes that special advisers employed by the SNP administration were "overly concentrated" on the media. Unlike Labour advisors who solely concentrate on the media.
She is upset, outrage or panicked or whatever fake Labour tag she wants to add about the UK Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill would lift the limit of 12 special advisers that the First Minister can appoint.
So, why should Alexander who isn’t going to be First Minister be concerned, she says it is because this would leave Holyrood "no power of any kind" to influence the number of advisers taken on.
This isn’t the business of Holyrood, they don’t run the Scottish Government and therefore should have no input on staffing levels.
At present the SNP administration employs ten special advisers but the reality is this number should be increased to share the work of the Government generated by the various portfolios.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
A bit of sense has popped up on the horizon.
First Minister Alex Salmond is to have a free hand in the number of politically-appointed government advisers he can make.
I would hope that the SNP take this opportunity to get some more, ‘people persons’ with commonsense, that wouldn’t go a miss as cheesegate which is further imploding and making the Scottish National Party look ridiculous.
There is now a Police investigation with talk of blackmail and extortion being banded about.
This continued bad publicity will kill chances of SNP Westminister Candidates being elected in 2010 and the referendum will suffer too.
In an odd visit from her cave, the disgraced Labour MSP Wendy Alexander has cast comment.
Her squealing offering on the move is that she believes that special advisers employed by the SNP administration were "overly concentrated" on the media. Unlike Labour advisors who solely concentrate on the media.
She is upset, outrage or panicked or whatever fake Labour tag she wants to add about the UK Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill would lift the limit of 12 special advisers that the First Minister can appoint.
So, why should Alexander who isn’t going to be First Minister be concerned, she says it is because this would leave Holyrood "no power of any kind" to influence the number of advisers taken on.
This isn’t the business of Holyrood, they don’t run the Scottish Government and therefore should have no input on staffing levels.
At present the SNP administration employs ten special advisers but the reality is this number should be increased to share the work of the Government generated by the various portfolios.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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