This week’s podcast finds Lesley reporting back from the Radical Independence Conference (RIC) held in Glasgow on November 25. What did she make of the ‘nae scones’, pink hair and ‘free spirits’ ?
She was also tempted into print by Kenny MacAskill’s remarks, reported in the Scotsman on Sunday headlines, about a reduction in the number of local authorities. What is the direction of travel and can it be changed?
Finally, public banking, or the lack of it at national or local, gets an outing after Chris blogged about it on his ‘Persuade Me’ blog. Is it more Wonga, status quo and less credit unions?
The answer to these questions and more is contained within this week’s Lesley Riddoch Podcast.
It’s Sunday and there’s another Pod no doubt being recorded at this very minute.
The points I picked up were
1. Latent power
2. Energy being transformed and not destroyed – as a physicist the trouble is that entropy is always increasing - basically the power to drive engines is being lost all the time and this looks to be Scotland’s problem
3. But back to the pod – Finance is too far away
4. What to do with all money under the bed – invest in small businesses
5. Small is beautiful – just found the book tucked in the book shelf
6. And back to the theme – let the action take place at the grass roots – empower the Community Councils
7. BTW what was the outcome of the Community Empowerment consultation
8. But why is this just a left prerogative- OK I know you two are on the left as is Gerry Hassan and he had a good article in this week’s Scotsman – the Liberals used to support community empowerment
9. And where is the SNP in all this – yet another centralist party
10. Yes Two views are too few – but then I’m still an arm chair liberal sitting on the fence – one day I’ll be like Humpy Dumpty!
11. Finally I don’t tweet – I have gone back to pencil and paper and a sharpener
Posted by: Mike Vickers | December 02, 2012 at 10:29 PM