Weaving industry stuffed

So the weavers have been hung out to dry yet again, by another lot of politicians.

Allan is now asking the Scottish Government to support the weavers claim to entitlement to Job Seekers Allowance. This will be the same campaign as MacNeil fearlessly lead for the best part of 20 minutes, a couple of years ago, and consisted of him writing one letter.

And that campaign was a failure, as will be Allan's. It is utterly pointless getting a Scottish Minister to prod a UK Minister, it only gets their backs up and achieves nothing. That may be the very point.

Alasdair Morrison undertook a similar fruitless and uninspired campaign a few years back, but Calum MacDonald was successful, until the Treasury changed the rules.

The real significance of the press release is that it signals that the Weavers Investment Fund is going nowhere and does not have Scottish Government support.

The emphasis has changed to the benefit entitlement – just as Angus recommended, no doubt much to the chagrin of the SNP - only in a pathetic, insincere fashion, designed to give the impression of doing anything, whilst actually achieving nothing. Situation normal, then.

BTW, does anyone know why Mr Mather responded so quickly to this letter from Mr Allan and has failed to reply (as far as we know!) to correspondence about the weavers investment fund, or indeed about Lighthouse Caledonia?