Insights from Andrew Neil’s look at the impact of independence on the rest of...
Last night’s BBC 2 programme [12th August] presented by Andrew Neil – Scotland Votes: What’s at stake for the UK?, looked at the impact of Scottish independence on the nature, standing and...
View ArticleFirst Minister absolutely correct in accusing Miliband of fighting the wrong...
First Minister Alex Salmond must rightly be delighted at another example of unionist parties obsessed with their own turf wars and simply unable to see and respond to the far higher risk and the...
View ArticleProtocol questions on United Kingdom opening talks on Scotland’s EU membership
After regularly repeating – untruthfully – that he had legal advice on Scotland’s membership of the European Union – First Minister Alex Salmond has insisted throughout the independence campaign that...
View ArticleLabour facing its own UKIP
Mick Cash, newly elected General Secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union [RMT], has just made it known that the politics of the left could be on the brink of the same sort of polarisation...
View ArticleGeneral election television debates
Today, 13th October, has seen another media frenzy over proposals for debates to be hosted by the major television channels during the campaign for the May 2015 United Kingdom General Election.The...
View ArticlePointless Labour strategy as Westminster seats come under SNP and UKIP eyes
As nationalist parties – Scotland’s Scottish National Party and the UK-wide United Kingdom Independence Party [UKIP] – start sniffing around the potential morbidity of Labour Party Westminster seats in...
View ArticleNimble SNP make mayhem at Westminster over EU referendum
Last night, in the first of six such events to ‘meet the members’, incoming First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, began her tour with a speech at Edinburgh’s Corn Market.She spoke of the SNP initiative...
View ArticleKeith Brown clarifies timetable to independence
Transport Minister, Keith Brown, the most capable and experienced of the three candidates for the Deputy Leadership of the SNP and the most capable and experienced of the two of those three who are...
View ArticleClegg dreams of threesome coalition for Westminster in the face of the...
Sky pilot Lib Dem Leader, Nick Clegg, is likely to break up on re-entry to earth’s atmosphere following the May 2015 General Election. With the party’s abject performance in the recent by election at...
View ArticleBrown clueless in trying to swerve constitutional issues
Former Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown, has called for Scotland to ‘stop obsessing about constitutional issues’ and get on with developing the economic performance and the...
View ArticleThe General Election merry-go-round with the Union and oil frontline drivers...
The 2015 General Election is going to be one humdinger of a magical mystery tour. No one has any idea actual evidence as to how the losses and gains will play out.The latest flurry of polls of voting...
View ArticleConsultation on Ofcom’s current list of major parties to guide media for 2015...
Ofcom yesterday issued a consultation on its current list of designated ‘major parties’ for the purposes of the United Kingdom General Election to be held in May 2015.The parameters for determining the...
View ArticleSturgeon hammers nail in coffin of SNP hopes of coalition at Westmister
The possibility of either of the two main UK political parties, the Conservatives and Labour, taking on the SNP as partners in a post General Election coalition was always improbable. It has now become...
View ArticleUK government proposal on English question makes rewind of devolution an issue
It’s hard not to despair at the extent to which governments of so many persuasions lag a long way behind the direction of the electorate.The United Kingdom is more than open to being excited by the...
View ArticleSlavery today – and in Scotland
In one of the most indefensible actions, in 2012 the current UK Government amended the conditions laid down in the 1998 Overseas Domestic Workers Visa provision, a conscious reform of working...
View ArticleMiliband and Labour: still cavilling in the face of the maths of failure
So today national Labour leader, Ed Miliband declared that there will be no coalition with the Scottish Nationalist Party: ‘There will be no SNP ministers in any government I lead’, he declared.This is...
View ArticleSharks and minnows – Scottish leaders all: tonight’s General Election debate
The TV studios don’t learn, do they? Did nobody remember the trouble Glenn Campbell had in the second indy debate between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling - because they put him in the middle, between...
View ArticleRadio Five Live session with candidates for Argyll and Bute seat
Yesterday morning, 14th April,, Nicky Campbell had five candidates for the Argyll and Bute constituency in a Helensburgh studio, with the interest being that this constituency is seen as one of the few...
View ArticleThe SNP manifesto – are we seeing the take-off of a Scottish Icarus?
Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon has made it know in advance to the national media that her manifesto for the SNP’s General Election campaign, to be launched tomorrow, will pledge SNP...
View ArticleUK reform a must: but what reform for what future?
A quick situation analysis shows:a Scotland where, either way, 50% of the population is holding the other 50% hostage;a United Kingdom where 4.7% of the total vote is holding the entire UK to...
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