Scott Macdonald

Month: March 2013

  • Debtbusting in an independent Scotland

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    Scott Macdonald
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    I should qualify some of this. Kezia Dugdale MSP in the Scottish Labour Party has done a lot of excellent work as a regional MSP in her Debtbusters campaign against pay-day loan companies. She was also the No campaign’s representative at a recent public debate. –> snip Dear Ms. Dugdale, I’d like to state that…

  • Workfare vote

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    Scott Macdonald
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    Dear Mr. Lazarowicz, I write to you today to express my concern at my understanding that the Labour Party will not oppose the government’s retrospective legislation on workfare. The bill seeks to retrospectively excuse the DWP from reimbursing wrongly sanctioned claimants.