Month: February 2020
UK Government must give answers after 'short-changing ' Scotland
Source:: The National UK Government must give answers after ‘short-changing ‘ Scotland ANSWERS have been demanded from the Tory Government following revelations that Scotland has been “short-changed” to the tune of £5.8 billion. Read the full article:: The National UK Government must give answers after ‘short-changing ‘ Scotland
Labour leader hopeful Rebecca Long-Bailey reveals proposed reforms
Source:: The National Labour leader hopeful Rebecca Long-Bailey reveals proposed reforms LABOUR leadership hopeful Rebecca Long-Bailey has published a list of reforms designed to flush out “vested interests” from UK politics. Read the full article:: The National Labour leader hopeful Rebecca Long-Bailey reveals proposed reforms
Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds announce they're expecting a baby
Source:: The National Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds announce they’re expecting a baby BORIS Johnson and Carrie Symonds have announced that they are expecting a baby in the early summer and that they have got engaged. Read the full article:: The National Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds announce they’re expecting a baby
Scottish football clubs face £3 million Brexit funding deficit
Sorry, not sorry
Source:: Wee Ginger Dug Sorry, not sorry The Conservative former MEP Struan Stevenson has penned an article for the Herald today in which he urges a “Canada style” solution to the independence debate. Canada style solutions are very much in vogue amongst Tories these days, possibly because they allow them to indulge in their obsession with all things North American while disguising their party’s essential trumpiness. But then what do you really expect from the British Conservatives, which isn’t so much a political party as it is… Read the full article:: Wee Ginger Dug Sorry, not sorry
Rebecca Long-Bailey says Labour will compete with Dominic Cummings
Source:: The National Rebecca Long-Bailey says Labour will compete with Dominic Cummings Rebecca Long-Bailey has vowed that the Labour Party would compete “toe-to-toe” against the Prime Minister’s controversial adviser Dominic Cummings if she becomes leader. Read the full article:: The National Rebecca Long-Bailey says Labour will compete with Dominic Cummings
Solicitor Mike Dailly quits SNP Social Justice Commission
Keyboard warriors criticise SNP strategy, but offer no credible alternatives
Source:: The National Keyboard warriors criticise SNP strategy, but offer no credible alternatives WITH SNP support at its highest level, support for independence at its highest ever point and an assumption now having reached majority acceptance that Scotland is going to be independent, our problem is with some of our support. These are many. They are the keyboard warriors in the main with an inflated opinion of their own intelligence which is very easily exposed for the naivety it actually is by an understanding of the ease in which our enemies have drawn… Read the full article:: The […]
Indyref2 to prove demand for third at Inchkeith SNP branch debate
Source:: The National Indyref2 to prove demand for third at Inchkeith SNP branch debate MORE feedback has come from Inchkeith branch of the SNP who facilitated a debate on “Independence the Way Forward” attended by 50 people from the party and Yes Kirkcaldy. Read the full article:: The National Indyref2 to prove demand for third at Inchkeith SNP branch debate
What Donald Trump’s money trail says about tracking the ultra-rich
Source:: The National What Donald Trump’s money trail says about tracking the ultra-rich SCOTLAND properly in the world? Of course. We have much ground to recover, and much to achieve. But would we choose as one of our global associations the befoulment of Donald Trump – sentimental about his homeland, and pestilential in his business dealings here? Read the full article:: The National What Donald Trump’s money trail says about tracking the ultra-rich
Michael Russell tells Yes groups: We must defend Scotland's interests
Source:: The National Michael Russell tells Yes groups: We must defend Scotland’s interests WE are always pleased to get feedback from Yes groups across Scotland as we are sure the Yes movement likes to know what other groups and individuals have been doing. Read the full article:: The National Michael Russell tells Yes groups: We must defend Scotland’s interests
Philip Rutnam: Top Home Office civil servant resigns from role
BP and Tortoise Media
Source:: Bella Caledonia BP and Tortoise Media An email lands from a great looking new media outfit promising something called ‘ThinkIns’ and inviting people to “to become a member of our newsroom.” Tortoise media we’re told is the invention of James Harding former director of BBC News, Katie Vanneck Smith of the Wall Street Journal and Matthew Barzun, Obama’s ambassador to the […] Read the full article:: Bella Caledonia BP and Tortoise Media
Disgraced LibDem's friends defend protection of Cyril Smith
Source:: The National Disgraced LibDem’s friends defend protection of Cyril Smith DAVID Steel’s decision to cover up the predatory behaviour of a prolific paedophile was because “things were less clear” around child sex abuse forty years ago, the former editor of the Scotsman has claimed. Read the full article:: The National Disgraced LibDem’s friends defend protection of Cyril Smith
Gail Ross's decision to quit should spark rethink at Holyrood
Source:: The National Gail Ross’s decision to quit should spark rethink at Holyrood WHEN a cross-party group of MSPs, including Jamie Greene and Alex Cole-Hamilton, are united in heaping praise on a parliamentarian from a different party, you know that person must be a decent sort. Read the full article:: The National Gail Ross’s decision to quit should spark rethink at Holyrood