SCOTSMAN.COM VIEW

An independent panel has proposed sweeping reform of the Scottish Parliament but stopped short of recommending a second chamber or an increase in MSPS

The LAST thing we need are more vacuous, underempolyed bags of wind on inflated salaries. – Frankie Fromage Abolish Holyrood and devolve power to local regions. Holyrood has destroyed self determination. – Steve White The most effective reform of the Scottish so-called parliament would be closure and reversion to a Scottish secretary and a team of able civil servants with guaranteed lack of political interference in their work. – Ingin Johnnie The place certainly needs reform, especially in making scrutiny of government legislation much more effective. But there should be less MSPS, not more. 129 for a devolved parliament serving five million people is much too many. –Sohot We ought to have the mechanism whereby any constituency can by referendum, deselect its MSP at any time. – corrigenda