BBC debate – views from down south
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted some key points from the BBC election debate tonight: “This election really matters, what’s at stake is the kind of country we want to be. We want Scotland to...
Monthly Archive: November 2019
PM Swinson not on cards so LibDems change policy
Layla Moran, a LibDem candidate, has admitted her party has ditched its pledge of revoking Article 50 and would instead campaign for a second EU referendum. Two weeks before polling day the change of...
Boris VIII, England’s would-be autocrat
Boris VIII is the second UK prime minister to look to use Henry VIII powers extensively. Mrs May was very keen on these with the executive trying to force through secondary legislation and bypass...
Good news for Eyemouth
Eyemouth Harbour Trust has announced it has been chosen as preferred port for the O&M base for Neart na Gaoithe Offshore wind farm, 15km off the Fife coast. Scottish Renewables Chief Executive Claire Mack...
Tory manifesto a promise of inaction to undermine role of government
“But what this means is that the absence of policy in this [Tory] manifesto is not accidental. Nor is it solely to do with the paralysis of Brexit. Rather, it’s choice. What we have...
UK home to 73% of Europe’s millionaire bankers
“Despite the Brexit vote in 2016, UK-based bankers still earned millions a year later according to pay and bonus details published by the European Banking Authority earlier this year. The research found that 3,567...
We can check out but never leave
The Referendums Bill going through the Scottish Parliament has been challenged by Labour’s James Kelly MSP who is attempting to add a requirement that 50% of the total registered electorate should have to vote...
Get voting backs SNP’s Calum Kerr for Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk
Breaking: Get Voting, a UK wide tactical voting website has finally come off the fence and is backing SNP candidate, Calum Kerr for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk against John Lamont, the shy Tory backing...
Why is John Lamont ashamed to be a Conservative?
Tory candidates in Scotland are hiding their party allegiance in their election literature and it looks like a national strategy to save their seats. Clearly they think promoting any connection with the Conservative Party...
SNP urge Labour to back devolved veto in NHS protection law
Labour in Scotland appear to have voted against an NHS protection law despite Jeremy Corbyn promising to introduce one at Westminster if he is elected to government in the upcoming election. A good piece...
