Too often, councils are asked to make impossible choices, but power is pulled upwards. If we're to rebuild trust, we should start from the places where people actually experience politics.
Discussing the need for local power in Labour's strategy.
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Unison is right. You cannot rebuild public services by cutting the jobs of the people who deliver them.
If reform is needed, it should start with backing the workforce, funding councils fairly and stopping public money being drained into excessive profits in social care.
Let me be plain about myself. I am in this for Scotland and nowhere else. I am not building the kind of career that ends in ermine. You will never see my name on a list for the House of Lords. I want to serve the country I am from.
It is time now for Scottish Labour to be bold, to be confident and to shape what happens next.
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