Tactical mistake as Deputy Prime Minister’s vanity takes over the Scotland...
Nick Clegg, facing bad results in a dreadful 15% turnout in the vote for the new Crime Commissioners in England and Wales and in three byelections, is nevertheless letting his ego run unchecked.The...
View ArticleCorby byelection result good news for Labour
The good news for Labour in taking back the constituency of Corby in the recent byelection, is not just the win and the respectable 12% swing in the vote – but the turnout. Against a 15% turnout for...
View ArticleCameron all over the place on EU
No one should ever face negative responses – like the tedious political cries of ‘U-turn’ – for changing their minds after mature reflection and/or more and better information.There is, however, a role...
View ArticleFirst Minister’s choice not to condemn mob behaviour proves Farage point
The UKIP Leader, Nigel Farage, an interesting and effective politician whatever one’s views on Europe, was the victim of a physically threatening and screaming mob in Edinburgh last night, forced to...
View ArticleUKIP complaint against BBC Scotland
UKIP is in the process of making a formal complaint against BBC Scotland for excluding it from participation in two hustings last week in connection with the Aberdeen Donside Holyrood by-election.The...
View ArticleAberdeen Donside by-election: SNP hang on, losing 13.5% vote
The result of the Aberdeen Donside by-election for the Scottish Parliament, caused by the death of SNP MSP Brian Adam.The SNP retained the seat with Mark McDonald – but with a reduced majority of...
View ArticleIndy could lead to a change of UK government under a year into office
[Updated below 4th February] Supposing Scotland went for Indy in September 2014, the UK General Election in May 2015 and what comes after it is a matter of serious interest..Of course we would elect...
View ArticleScotland’s George Lyon only British Lib Dem MEP to vote against equal pay...
[Updated below 15.00 - error in voting process] George Lyon, former MSP for Argyll and Bute and now his party’s sole Scottish MEP at the EU parliament, was the only British Liberal Democrat to oppose...
View ArticleClear win for Farage over Clegg in EU debate
Nigel Farage – no sweat – was the clear winner in tonight’s BBC debate with Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, on the UK’s relationship with the European Union.UKIP’s Farage showed the greater...
View ArticleSalmond, Farage, SNP and UKIP
The SNP and UKIP are both parties driven by separatist determinations. The difference between them is no more than the fact that the link each wishes to retain is the one the other is working to break...
View ArticleAnother sign of the times for the Lib Dems in Newark
Yesterday’s by election for the Newark seat at the UK Parliament saw the Conservatives hold the seat but with their 16,000 majority cut by 56% and their vote share by almost 9% by the UKIP candidate...
View ArticleInsights 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...
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