Actually, it's not quite as bad as it first looks..
An MSP has urged the Scottish government to consider supporting a buy-up of Afghanistan's opium crop. Nationalist Bill Wilson has submitted a motion calling for the issue to be investigated as part of a "national and international drugs and crime policy".
But still, there are problems a lot closer to home the SNP should be addressing themselves to, before worrying about what's going on in the other end of the world
2 comments:
I may not have got past A-level/2nd year University in Business before getting bored of it, but surely buying up the crop will artificially inflate demand and encourage more farmers to start growing it. (A bit like the CAP in France!)
Sounds like typical SNP thinking (or lack thereof) to me.
The more important question is sorting out the demand for the end product in the west, whilst that remains, then there'll always be a demand for the crop. The Afghan farmer may well have a ponder about what a strange moral code those westerners live by, but in the end he won't care if he's selling to a drug cartel or the local rep of the Scottish "government".
The more importnat point here which nobody has picked up on is; isn't this MSA getting ideas slightly above his and his "government's" station? Sort out Scotland first before trying to save the world.
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