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CBI Scotland, which represents 26,000 Scottish businesses, has just launched its own manifesto in the run up to the Holyrood elections in 2011. The headline proposal is that ‘government and public authorities should become commissioners of services, outsourcing the delivery of services to the private and not-for-profit sectors.’ Recently, some commentators see this Tom Miers article in The Herald, have warned that the imminent public sector cuts will impact heavily on private sector contractors. CBI Scotland’s
The weekend before last, Douglas Fraser, the business and economy editor at BBC Scotland, wrote a thought-provoking piece on public and private sector pay in Scotland. It is based on a recent paper by Professor David Bell of Stirling University and it makes for interesting reading on the day that George Osborne has announced a potential £332 million cut in the amount of Scottish public spending. The BBC’s Politics Show covers some of the same ground in a discussion between Professor
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Danny Alexander, the Liberal Democrat MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey has been made the Scottish Secretary in the new Conservative/Lib Dem coalition Cabinet.
As Nick Clegg’s chief of staff and the co-ordinator of the Lib Dem’s election campaign, his previous high profile roles might help assuage the doubts of Scots business people who fear that their concerns would not be heard at Cabinet level.
He faces a busy time in office. Already, the SNP are su
When Gordon Brown announced that Thursday the 6th of May was the date of the next election, he was simply confirming what most Westminster watchers had already guessed.
But now that the cat is finally out of the bag, politicians of every hue are promising the electorate that theirs is the only party which can be safely trusted with the economy.
After a torrid eighteen months in which the expenses scandal has ensured that trust has become a very scarce commodity, it wouldn’t be a huge surprise if
