The Thelma and Louise of Scottish politics

Yet another Scottish opinion poll, this time by Norstat (formerly known as Panelbase) for the Sunday Times has confirmed the picture that is becoming clear from other recent opinion polling, Anas Sarwar and the Labour party in Scotland are in deep, deep trouble and unless there is some miracle between now…

The nastification of British politics

This week, yet another UK- wide opinion poll put Nigel Farage’s hard right anti-immigrant fan club Reform UK ltd. in poll position in Westminster voting intention. The poll, by YouGov, gave the Faragistes 26%, Labour 25% and the Tories 21%. This was shortly followed by another poll, this time carried out…

No jam tomorrow for Grangemouth with Labour

We have become so used to the lies and betrayals of the Labour party that a term for them has entered the language, ‘jam tomorrow’. The term was first used in the Lewis Caroll novel Alice Through the Looking-Glass, published in 1871, but by the latter half of the 20th century…

Starmer’s moral cowardice on Gaza

You could be forgiven for forgetting that Keir Starmer used to be a human rights lawyer, after all, Keir Starmer seems to have forgotten too. The world was in shock on Wednesday morning after Donald Trump announced that he had unilaterally torn up the two state solution to the Israel-Palestine problem…

John Swinney ate my cat

The British nationalist media is really scraping the bottom of the SNPbad scare story barrel now that it’s looking as though Anas Sarwar’s tenure as Saviour of the Union has been more short lived than most, with the implosion of support for Labour in Scotland. Labour’s chances of forming the next…

Scotland has no future in Farage’s English nationalist UK

Given the way in which support for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Ltd was rising in opinion polling, and gaining uncritical publicity in the media, particularly from a Scottish media which sees the hard right as a bulwark against independence and ‘proof’ that Scotland is not politically so different from England, there…

The Turd Reich and what it means for Scotland

Over in America it’s week one of the Turd Reich. Amongst the lowlights of Monday’s inauguration of Donald Trump as American president was the sight of an overly energetic Elon Musk excitedly making what was looked very like a Nazi salute to a crowd of Trump supporters at an inauguration event….

Turning things around for the SNP

There’s good news and not so good news from recent opinion polling. The good news is that the SNP should easily remain the largest party in Holyrood by quite some margin on current showing, while support for Labour in Scotland is in freefall, the not so good news is that the…

Musk vs. Farage, speed hating goes wrong

Well it appears that Nigel Farage is going to have to look elsewhere for a multi-million pound donation from a far right billionaire sugar daddy. Fresh from falling out with Donald Trump’s MAGA base, Elon Musk has now fallen out with Farage over the latter’s failure to support the fascist thug…

Looking down the storm drain of 2025

Happy New Year! and not so happy higher energy bills. On New Year’s Day the media gave extensive coverage to the higher energy bill price cap which came into effect on the first of January. What was not mentioned, and certainly was not mentioned on the Scottish news-where-you-are on the BBC…

Starmer’s Christmas betrayals

Starmer’s betrayals are coming thick and fast. It wasn’t too long ago that Starmer was promising to abolish the House of Lords. In 2022 Starmer vowed to abolish the House of Lords and replace it with a fully elected upper chamber. Yet the Labour manifesto for this year’s general election contained…

Record support for an independent Scottish republic

The pro-independence campaign group Believe in Scotland has released an important new poll. The group asked an additional question in the recent Norstat poll published in the Sunday Times which showed support for independence at an impressive 54%. The Times poll asked the question, Should Scotland be an independent country? This…

Starmer’s Waspi betrayal will come back and sting him

What exactly is going on with this Labour government? It’s like they have decided to set out to piss off as many pensioners as they can in the shortest amount of time. If that’s what they’re doing, then they are certainly one of the most successful governments in modern history. Perhaps…