Refitting on the Clyde
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Glasgow, Scotland, has developed a thriving retail center, with an art gallery, and the slums have been replaced with small-scale housing projects. The housing projects have high levels of unemployment since manual work is less easily obtainable. The middle class has also left Glasgow, and the city council, which permitted little private housing, is partly to blame. The political boundaries of the city were changed by the Conservative government in 1996, and it lost its suburbs. The ruling group in Glasgow, despite being from the Labor party, is a faction opposed to the ruling group in the United Kingdom government, while the Scottish parliament is to be based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1998
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Lairds and land
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There are plans for land reform in Scotland where 350 people own some 50% of the land that is privately held, and 80% of Scotland is accounted for by 1,500 private estates. There have been notorious cases of absentee landlords, and landlords have a great deal of legal power over tenants in Scotland. The planned reforms include provisions to allow tenants to buy land at prices that the government decides. The new law would be dealt with by the Scottish parliament, and the proposals have come from the Labor Party, and allow it to appear radical alongside the Scottish National Party.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
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Letting go
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The United Kingdom Labor party could achieve the most seats in the new Scottish parliament, without obtaining an overall majority, and could government with help from the Liberal Democrats. The Scottish National Party (SNP) has been presented by Labor as dangerously separatist. There are divisions within the Labor party in Scotland, and some members wish for policies that are different from the policies of the party in England. Prime minister, Tony Blair, aims to separate issues that can be tackled by the UK as a whole from those that Scotland can tackle itself.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
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