Local MP backs Lib Dem campaign for future of crofting
August 15, 2009 12:00 AM
John Thurso MP today came out strongly in support of the Lib Dem campaign calling for the Scottish Government to abandon its Draft Crofting Reform Bill and listen to the voices of crofters from across the region.
The campaign was launched at the Black Isle Show on the 7th August where Lib Dem politicians from across the Highlands came together in support of John Farquhar Munro MSP, Jamie Stone MSP and Alan MacRae who were leading the opposition here and at Holyrood. Their petition at the show garnered well over a hundred signatures and John and Jamie have launched their own online petition in support.
John said:
"These ill thought out reforms offer new levels of oppressive regulation and new costs for crofters to bear. Many crofters have contacted both myself and my colleague Jamie Stone on this issue and their verdict on the Bill is clear and damning.
"Scrapping some of the fundamental rights enshrined by Gladstone in 1886 is not going to help crofters or ensure the future of crofting for future generations. Indeed some of the proposals such as enabling banks to get their hands on crofts through loan recovery schemes and the distance of residency requirement for children to inherit would be positively damaging. As for the sweeping powers to monitor crofts the bill proposes… they seem not only an infringement of civil liberties but also unenforceable."
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