The CBI reversal: silencing people changes neither their views nor their votes
The reverberations roll on from the stupendously ill-managed decision by the Confederation of British Industry [Scotland] to commit to formal support and funding of the pro-union campaign against...
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Labour group in Helensburgh talking about Faslane and local jobs in Lomond
Shadow Defence Secretary, Labour’s Vernon Coaker MP, was in Helensburgh last week talking to local businesses about the role of Faslane as a source of employment in Helensburgh and Lomond.The base...
View ArticlePolitical funding the story of the day
As the SNP is announced to have been given yet another £1 by mega Euromillions winners Chris and Colin Weir – seeing the party and the Yes campaign together get a whacking £5.5 million from a single...
View ArticlePro-indy event in Tayvallich this Friday
The pro-indy campaign is holding a questions and answers session in the Village Hall in Tayvallich on Loch Sween, this Friday, 4th July at 7pm.Guest speakers are:Michael Russell, Argyll and Bute SNP...
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Murphy’s Irn Bru tour for the Union
A couple of Irn Bru crates to stand on [sometimes]. A mic [occasionally]. ‘Yes’ hecklers [always]. Humour and hard facts [a constant]. And the potential spoiler to end all spoilers – Oban’s seagull...
View ArticleThe people and the election: influences the Scottish Affairs Committee ignored
In its recently published report on evidence submitted during its enquiries – The Referendum on Separation for Scotland: no doubt – no currency union – the Scottish Affairs Committee of the House of...
View ArticleSunday Herald still dishonest on last week’s smear on Labour
In its edition last Sunday, 3rd August, the Sunday Herald, a declared supporter since Easter of the independence campaign, published a major article which smeared Scottish Labour in its utter...
View ArticleJim Murphy hit by eggs in Kirkcaldy
Labour’s former Secretary of State for Scotland, Jim Murphy MP, was hit very messily on his back by eggs during his visit today to Kircaldy in Fife.This was part of Mr Murphy’s personal pro-union...
View ArticleIssues of judgment in pro-union television advertisements and in those...
Two feeble pro-union television advertisements have done the pro-union campaign no favours, with the worst the recent insulting presentation of a dimwit indecisive female figure – in a half-assed...
View ArticleJaw-dropping background to Gordon Brown’s intervention in saving the Union –...
All that was visible from the public side of things in the latter part – the emergency part – of the campaign to save the Union was that there was a point where former Prime Minister and Chancellor,...
View ArticleSituation analysis 1: Scotland now – the SNP predicament
The referendum is over. The majority for the union was good enough but Scotland is not a country in recovery from this traumatic period. It is a twitchy, febrile place forced to endure continued...
View ArticleMurphy campaign: Why waste time apologising?
Jim Murphy’s campaign for the Leadership of Scottish Labour began today with the sophist ritual humiliation that has become the hallmark of the age of mindless politics.This began with Murphy’s old...
View ArticleTotty squib for Miliband – who must stand by the rightness of his stance on...
Ed Miliband may not be the sort of leader to galvanise the country – but that is his party’s job and Labour at the moment is behaving like a skyful of starlings at dusk – a dark and colourless mass,...
View ArticleJim Murphy on the money in recall of Scottish MPs
New Scottish Labour Leader, Jim Murphy, is said today to have recalled from Westminster all of the Scottish Labour MPs, with instructions to start fighting to retain their seats.Who better to do that...
View ArticleGordon Brown: talking constitutional nonsense
Anyone can understand – and accept – that a political party with its future under threat will fight to protect its position.What is not acceptable in this struggle is outright rabble-rousing deception...
View ArticleJack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind caught offering to sell influence for cash
In a Daily Telegraph classic sting to be published and broadcast tomorrow, 23rd February, Former Home and Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw and former Secretary of State for Scotland, Defence and Foreign...
View ArticleBlair trying to buy his way back into nationwide Labour favour
It was being reported yesterday that the Flying Dutchman of British politics, the ghost ship doomed never to be able to reach port, appears to be making another tack to port by the means he knows best...
View ArticleLabour in helpless self-harm over Blair money
One of the United Kingdom’s traditional two major political parties, adrift with no known destination, no passenger manifest [will the SNP be embarking in May], a rookie electoral navigator who’d...
View ArticleRumour of alternative second private sector bidder for Clyde and Hebridean...
With Transport Scotland having confirmed to us that two Pre-Qualifying Questionnaires [PQQs] were received in the ongoing tender process for the Clyde and Hebridean Ferry Services [CHFS] contract, the...
View ArticleMurphy right to nail McCluskey
In announcing that, in one month’s time, he will step down as Scottish Labour Leader, Jim Murphy has said: ‘The Labour party’s problem is not the link with trade unions or even the relationship with...
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