Scottish Labour MPs – not absent SNP MPs – do the heavy lifting on getting...
Only two out of six SNP MPs – but all 40 Scottish Labour MPs [including former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former Chancellor Alastair Darling] – were in the voting lobby of the House of Commons...
View ArticleSNP leadership nominations now closed
Nominations closed this morning for the posts of Leader and Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party [SNP], following Alex Salmond’s announcement that he is stepping down as leader at the Party...
View ArticleSturgeon now SNP Leader as Hosie tops poll for Deputy
Nicola Sturgeon has ow formally taken over from Alex Salmond as Leader of the SNP.Stewart Hosie. of the ‘hold their feet to the fire’ fancy, has been elected as Deputy Leader of the party, with...
View ArticleSwinney the perfect choice as Deputy First Minister
The apparent likelihood that Finance Secretary John Swinney will become Deputy First Minister is good politics.John Swinney will bring reliability and competence in economic management where it counts...
View ArticleSalmond to donate First Minister’s pension to charity – for as long as he...
Scotland’s resigning First Minister, Alex Salmond, has announced that he will donate to charity the pension he will receive for his period as First Minister – for as long as he remains an MSP.Mr...
View ArticleRetiral at the first fence – Salmond will not challenge Danny Alexander
Former First Minister, Alex Salmond, let it be made known – for a week or so with no denial – that he was considering standing against Liberal Democrat Treasury Secretary, Danny Alexander, in Inverness...
View ArticleLabour in helpless self-harm over Blair money
One of the United Kingdom’s traditional two major political parties, adrift with no known destination, no passenger manifest [will the SNP be embarking in May], a rookie electoral navigator who’d...
View ArticleONE [tactical] VOTE for the Union in Scotland and England: JUST DO IT
Across the entire United Kingdom, this is the last battle for the Union.This side of the border, it’s also another battle in the war for Scotland – and a critical one.There are only two votes to...
View Article
