Labour councillors in Falkirk have joined with the local Conservative group to oust the SNP minority administration. The Labour/Tory alliance defeated the SNP by 14 votes to 13. The decision by Scottish Labour councillors to join with their Conservative counterparts…
Cat Boyd – Justifiable criticisms and justifiable questions
Just over a year ago I wrote an article entitled ‘RISE – Deluded, doomed and divisive’. The article followed a three day push from Scotland’s main stream media for a party created from the embers of the 2014 independence referendum…
RISE co-founder reveals she voted Labour
The co-founder of the radical pro-independence party RISE has admitted she voted Labour in June’s general election. Speaking on the Sunday Politics Scotland programme, Cat Boyd said: “I’m proud to say that I voted for Jeremy Corbyn. I voted for…
The emergence of the North British Nationalist Party means it’s end-game
We’re nearing end-game in the three hundred year old struggle to restore Scotland’s sovereignty. The civil war engulfing Scottish Labour was foretold by many independence supporters when the SNP won power in 2007. The rag-tag remnants of Scottish Labour were…
Labour council facing investigation over £200,000 public funds ‘scandal’
A Labour controlled local authority is at the centre of what a rival councillor has described as a “scandal” after £200,000 of public cash was inappropriately earmarked for work on storm damaged land said to be owned by a Labour…
Labour leadership “siding with terrorists” claims Ruth Davidson
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has accused the Labour party leadership of “siding with terrorists”. The MSP made the remark whilst appearing as a guest on the BBC Question Time programme. Davidson was responding to criticism of Theresa May’s Article…
Anas Sarwar ridiculed after ‘angry white men’ tweet
Scottish Labour MSP Anas Sarwar has been ridiculed after claiming to have suffered abuse at the hands of a ‘mob of angry white men’. The MSP has become involved in a ‘racism’ controversy after Labour’s Mayor of London Sadiq Khan…
Labour ‘Indy same as Racism’ claim is an insult to Scots says FM
Claims by the Labour party that support for Scottish independence is no different to racism, have been condemned by the First Minister. Nicola Sturgeon has today called the comments from Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan “ill-judged” and “an insult” to…
The Scottish Six Treachery … An excerpt from ‘London Calling: How the BBC stole the Referendum’
The BBC is a global institution which has its headquarters in London. All major decisions are taken there. It is officially free from interference from the Westminster government of the day and by extension is apolitical – or is supposed…
Forget Brexit … My train was late!
The ‘Railway Crisis’ nonsense appears to have run its course. The issue dominated First Minister’s Questions last Thursday but failed to make it onto that evening’s Reporting Scotland. Someone at Pacific Quay clearly decided after eight days they could squeeze…