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I recommend a full read, but below for me are the most striking paragraphs, especially as we mark ten years of devolution: The infamous 1998-99 selection process, when a Blairite London appointed committee, chaired by Rosemary MacKenna, supervised by Jack McConnell, and fully endorsed by Donald Dewar and Gordon Brown, ripped the intellectual and independent soul out of the Labour Party in Scotland before the new parly even met.

Archive 2009-06-01 Alan Smart 2009

But just do any reasonable like for like comparisson with the costs of running Holyrood with any parly in the world - even fully independent ones, and you will see instantly just how inefficient Holyrood is. (something in my time the senior officials point blank refused to do, indeed they even rubbished an Irish Parliament consultants report that put Holyrood as bottom of their international efficiency league table)

A NATIONAL DISGRACE: £1.5 million payoff for 8 parly bosses Alan Smart 2009

And I also wondered what the folks of Gaza would have thought when via holyrood. tv they watched one of their own tribe rise to speak for them in our parly. (very difficult to accees in gaza, but for surely it would have gotten though to someone there)

Archive 2009-02-01 Alan Smart 2009

This is a national disgrace, a symbol of how far we have fallen short of these high aspirations we had of our new parly only ten years ago ..

A NATIONAL DISGRACE: £1.5 million payoff for 8 parly bosses Alan Smart 2009

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A NATIONAL DISGRACE: £1.5 million payoff for 8 parly bosses Alan Smart 2009

I worked at the parly fot 7 years, know exactly the set up, who's who's and how they inter-relate - indeed who appointed them, and what they were paid in the first place.

A NATIONAL DISGRACE: £1.5 million payoff for 8 parly bosses Alan Smart 2009

And I also wondered what the folks of Gaza would have thought when via holyrood. tv they watched one of their own tribe rise to speak for them in our parly. (very difficult to accees in gaza, but for surely it would have gotten though to someone there)

Why We Fight Alan Smart 2009

My parly salary was quite "huge" - i'd say about 50% over the market rate for the post I was in.

A NATIONAL DISGRACE: £1.5 million payoff for 8 parly bosses Alan Smart 2009

A NATIONAL DISGRACE: £1.5 million payoff for 8 parly bosses

A NATIONAL DISGRACE: £1.5 million payoff for 8 parly bosses Alan Smart 2009