All the latest news from the Highland and Scottish Liberal Democrats, Jamie Stone MP and Highlands Westminster Candidate, Angus MacDonald.
Scotland is banning the use of the only spray that can control bracken, Asulox, whereas England will continue to allow it. Bracken harbours ticks which carry Lyme’s disease.
It was a call that I’d been dreading – last Thursday, Jeremy Hosking rang to say he’d had enough and was withdrawing his offer to buy Kinloch Castle on Rum.
There was only one Corran proposal on the table at the Highland Council meeting on the 11th May 2023, and all us local Cllrs supported it. It was for the maximum £50 million bid to the Westminster Levelling Up Fund.
The Highlands is becoming the home to a significant percentage of Britain’s green energy needs. Even before wind, our post war hydro dams made the Highlands 100% self sufficient in electricity.
A gorgeous castle on a Hebridean island with a world class sea view and a decent skelp of land for sale at possibly as little as a £1. Tempted?
I am a Highland Councillor for Fort William and Ardnamurchan but I write on behalf of all West Highlanders, there are few of any political persuasion who would not support my request below.
Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP has today called on the Scottish Government to match commitments to increase the research budget of English universities by more than a third over the next three years.
Responding to reports that the National Care Service will be delayed, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Speaking as Scottish Liberal Democrats opposed the local government settlement handed down to councils by the SNP/Green Government, party leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said
Following the ministerial statement by Lorna Slater where 6 times in direct questions she refused to admit that just 664 out of 4,500 producers in Scotland have signed up to the Deposit Return Scheme, Scottish Liberal Democrat climate emergency spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today called out more SNP spin on the false energy statistic that Scotland has 25% of Europe’s potential offshore wind resource, after Constitution Secretary Angus Robertson was summoned to Parliament about why he kept using it after being warned it was incorrect.
Responding to the news that the media will be banned from attending all nine SNP leadership husting events, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Liberal Democrats want a way forward which works for Britain - that cuts down red tape, reduces costs for businesses and makes people better off as a result.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
