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The Scottish electorate did not vote in a host of politicians claiming to be left of centre to merely pass on the cuts, says JOHN STEVENSON

I once received a letter which said: "Like you, we believe local services are more important than frozen poultry."

I was mildly puzzled because I couldn't recall ever having made such a profound analysis.

It turns out it was a reply to something a colleague had sent out contrasting the local paper's silence about 1,500 council job cuts with its campaign against 547 job losses at a chicken factory.

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