Disappointing response from Jackie Baillie aimed more at …

Comment posted MSPs play for Check on capital spending for economic recovery by Dr Douglas McKenzie.

Disappointing response from Jackie Baillie aimed more at trying to score points over the SNP than addressing unemployment.

I quite like the term “shovel ready”. It encapsulates the essential components of the idea neatly within two words: “shovel” indicates that it is referring to capital expenditure on building projects and “ready” implies that the projects can be started without any delays and so will be able to stimulate the economy, employment and infrastructure without delay. What would you suggest as an alternative phrase that would encapsulate the same concepts equally succinctly?

Recent comments by Dr Douglas McKenzie

• Rustle with Russell
  More utter rubbish from Lynda Henderson. Have you actually spoken to Bob Allen? Whoever told you the story sold you a pup and in your arrogance you cannot admit to be wrong so you make up this story that he was persuaded not to resign.

  Your position is completely untenable.

• Russell back in the bathtub, now trying to sink Keith Brown’s boat
  I’m afraid you condemn yourself by your own words. I don’t think that anyone reading what you have written here and the language you have used would conclude anything other than that you have a deep dislike for Mr Russell and that dislike is leading you to basically lose all sense of either proportion or impartiality. It doesn’t matter how well (or otherwise) you know Mr Russell you are clearly exercised by your interpretation of his actions and it is leading you well beyond the pale in what I would consider fair comment.

  This vendetta against Mr Russell and the SNP is destroying FA’s credibility and I have to confess that I’m seriously considering whether or not to continue reading FA (which will cheer Malcolm up if nothing else). I for one am becoming increasingly disenchanted by the constant negativity and sheer nastiness that has crept into this blog. I say that with a lot more sorrow than anger because I think that FA could have been great and indeed still could but there has to be a degree of balance, civility and indeed humour. All we are getting here is bile and it is causing me heartburn.

• Russell back in the bathtub, now trying to sink Keith Brown’s boat
  To be honest, this post clearly shows that you are speaking from your personal dislike of Mr Russell rather than an unbiased analysis of the man. Phrases such as “publicity hungry coward” are well beyond what is reasonable comment.
• Russell back in the bathtub, now trying to sink Keith Brown’s boat
  You don’t seem to understand the separation of a MSP’s duty to his or her constituency and their responsibilities as a Government Minister.

  Yet again, this is another instance where a member of the Government can do no right: speak up and be condemned as “desperate” or stay silent and be accused of not serving your constituents’ interests.

  It is just as well that Mr Russell has broad shoulders!

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