Why are we still hearing from Scott Arthur MP on this, as transport is devolved?
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Posted 6 months ago #
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Good question
Though he is a Scottish MP
And ‘transport’ remains his primary area of expertise(?)
Posted 6 months ago # -
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The Edinburgh Reporter understands that Cllr Scott Arthur, the Labour councillor recently elected to Westminster, has now officially resigned from his elected position.
This will result in a by-election to fill the vacancy in the three member ward of Colinton/Fairmilehead. The other councillors are Marco Biagi, a former SNP Minister, and Scottish Conservative Jason Rust at present.
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Posted 6 months ago # -
Unless he holds the Westminster constituency forever, then sure as night follows day we'll see Arthur's dark hand at the council again
Posted 6 months ago # -
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I now must resign as your Councillor:
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https://x.com/drscottarthurmp/status/1834848839573930461
“Must”
Now
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Posted 6 months ago # -
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Demanding that ever increasing funds are allocated to road building whilst criticising investment in public transport is part of why we have transport inequalities across the UK.
This ethos is why Winchburgh train station still does not exist, and why residents living in Balerno & Currie in my constituency face bus journeys into central Edinburgh which take longer than they should.
The reality is that investing in sustainable public transport is fundamental to cutting inequality, growing the economy, and hitting net zero.
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Posted 6 months ago # -
Gaslighting from someone who allocated £10m a year to roads after making sure that the policy of also improving sustainable transport as part of resurfacing works was cancelled!
Posted 6 months ago # -
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I had really productive surgery sessions in Fountainbridge and Oxgangs Libraries yesterday, and my constituents were kind enough to give me these gifts to help guide me.
None meet the threshold for a formal declaration, but all meant a great deal to those that gave them to me - I think that is what really matters.
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Posted 5 months ago # -
We need to bring people back from the brink. Politicians have particularly got to show restraint.
Posted 5 months ago # -
I'm not well read on the middle east, but separately to whether you'd consider the wars there remotely justified it seems insane to claim that land etc is not a factor
Posted 5 months ago # -
@chdot. The Invisible Doctrine is a must read. It's one of those books that would be handy for the entire population to have read, and get angry enough as a population to effect meaningful change. I gave my copy away as soon as I'd read it. The person I gave it to started buying copies to distribute to others.
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“The Invisible Doctrine is a must read.”
Sounds like SA should do, though the tone of his tweet suggests he won’t bother.
Posted 5 months ago # -
Keen cyclist. And sprightly septuagenarian Sheila Gilmore chasing the crumbly vote in Scott Arthur’s former bailliewick.
Posted 5 months ago # -
Happen to stumble across this in CECs FOI log
"Request no. 42195. Received: 15/04/2023
Spokes Edinburgh Lobby Group
I would like to receive all correspondence for the period 2019 - 2023 inclusive, between Councillor Scott Arthur and Spokes Edinburgh Lobby Group."No response yet...
https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/homepage/10467/freedom-of-information-foi-disclosure-log?month=2023-4
They did provide it in the end! I hope the tinfoil hatter in question was suitably sated (though let's face it, they probably just took the lack of anything corrupt within as proof of a non-existent cover-up).
https://edinburgh.axlr8.uk/documents/42195/42195%20Correspondence.pdf
Posted 5 months ago # -
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New investigation body into road crashes being considered, UK Transport Secretary @LouHaigh has just told @TransportCttee in response to question from Edinburgh MP @DrScottArthurMP. My 2021 Inside Transport column on the issue:
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Posted 4 months ago # -
As transport and justice are devolved, ironically this won't ever benefit the good chap's constituents
Posted 4 months ago # -
Moreover, rUK's Road Traffic Act 1988 s39 already says that local authorities must prepare and carry out a programme of measures designed to promote road safety.
More critically, it says LAs are required to carry out studies into accidents on roads where vehicles are involved, and then take appropriate action to prevent similar accidents. The legislation says this might comprise information and advice and training for anyone who uses the road, and it can also relate to how roads are built and maintained and improved.
This idea of a Roads Collision Investigation Branch sounds like someone idly read the RTA and asked if anyone was doing this stuff, and everyone looked at everyone else.
I skimmed the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 but couldn't find a comparable requirement to carry out investigations of 'accidents' but presume something exists in other SIs or maybe Transport Scotland's Road Safety Framework.
Posted 4 months ago # -
The absurd lengths we go to (or not) to accommodate a fundamentally and systemically unsafe system
Posted 4 months ago # -
The AAIB will no doubt find itself similarly overwhelmed once flying cars become a thing.
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"I didn't see you, sir!"
"Came out of 'nowhere'"
Posted 4 months ago # -
The provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1988 apply to Scotland.
As far as I know, every local authority produces a road safety plan. Implementing these plans means the authority has discharged its statutory duties. The current Edinburgh plan is tricky to find, but seems to be appended to a TEC Committee paper.
Posted 4 months ago # -
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Louise Watson Spence of the Scottish Liberal Democrats has been duly elected to serve in the City of Edinburgh Council for the Colinton/Fairmilehead Ward #EdinByElection
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Posted 4 months ago # -
As might be expected of a person determined to be on the wrong side of progressive causes, Scott Arthur voted against the assisted dying bill in its second reading.
Perhaps assisted dying is only permissible when the assistance is provided by a motor vehicle?
Posted 4 months ago # -
On X he says he had to vote on behalf of the people of England & Wales to help them try and make the right decision. Chris Murray voted 'for' though most Scots MPs voted 'against'. SNP members abstained as it should be a matter for our neighbours without interference from here (in my view too).
With only 55 vote margin there was a danger Scottish members could have swung the vote.
Why any MP representing a Scotish seat feels they should interfere in this England and Wales matter is beyond me. When a similar vote happens in Holyrood then MPs from E&W cannot vote here.
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Ian Murray abstained. haven't seen his rationale.
Posted 4 months ago # -
@SRD He is on St Andrew's day UKGov Scotland trade mission to Singapore. Heriot Watt have facility there.
Full itinary...!
SCOTTISH Secretary Ian Murray has set off on a trip to south east Asia to launch “Brand Scotland”.
He will visit Malaysia then spend St Andrew’s Day in Singapore to promote Scottish products.
The five-day trip will see Murray meet businesspeople and university officials in Malaysia, including a visit to Heriot Watt University’s campus in Putrajaya.
He will also attend the signing of a deal between the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the National University of Malaysia to have Malaysian surgical students trained in Scotland.
On the second leg of the trip, Murray will attend the Singapore St Andrew’s Society annual ball and meet trade minister Grace Fu.
He will also tour HMS Spey, a Royal Navy warship built in Scotland with a permanent presence in the Indo-Pacific and currently visiting Singapore.
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aha! thanks.
Posted 4 months ago # -
He has no terms of reference like Donny in the Big Lebowski but less nice
Posted 4 months ago # -
How was this not "west Lothian question"-ed? I wouldn't expect him to support it but I'm deeply surprised that Scottish MPs should be interfering with a purely English law
Posted 4 months ago # -
@Dave
SA's decision to vote on this issue was not an outlier. All Labour, Tory and Liberal MPs believe in a future which has the UK as a more unitary state with fewer 'opt outs' for Scotland. However it is pretty daft as Scottish law existed before devolution.
Media generally does remind readers and viewers here that the decision 'that will change a nation' means England & Wales. For average person this may go unnoticed as our media is heavily swayed from South.
Bill of course has many more stages to go.Posted 4 months ago #
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