Fears that the Scottish Labour party is seeking to make political capital out of public-sector pay negotiations have grown after a party official claimed a march in support of teachers’ pay was a protest against the ‘SNP government’. Aidan Kerr,…
Glasgow Equal Pay lawyer claims GMB supported Action4Equality only AFTER Labour lost power in city
The equal rights lawyer who represents many of the women at the centre of the Glasgow Council Equal Pay row has said trade unions refused to deal with him for years after the dispute began. Stefan Cross told The Times…
Glasgow Council Equal Pay Dispute – The story the media isn’t telling you
A guest post from a reader. There was a brief discussion on the Glasgow Council equal pay dispute this weekend on Radio Scotland. Employment, Discrimination & Healthcare Lawyer Jillian Merchant complained at what she saw was a lack of coverage…
Labour’s Raytheon attack backfires after it emerges the party handed arms firm £407,000 in 2017
Scottish Labour has been left red faced after it emerged the party handed hundreds of thousands of pounds to the same arms firm it claimed should not have received money from the Scottish government. Leader Richard Leonard called a recent…
Labour councillors join Tories to oust SNP in Falkirk
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…