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Scotland’s economic future: the brave or the grave
We asked a small number of guests, including a senior figure from the finance side of the oil and gas industry to work with us in brainstorming the economic development challenges that face...
View ArticleEwan Smith may be a lone vote for parents’ wishes on Arbroath school estate
As a newly independent councilor, Ewan Smith, the schools campaigner well known in Argyll, today [7th March] faces a full council meeting on the issue which led to his recent resignation from the SNP...
View ArticleContradictory positions on oil coming from Scottish Government
Just days ago, on 17th July, the independent Office of Budget Responsibility [OBR] revised downwards its forecasts for the contribution of oil revenues to the UK economy.This comes as the pattern of...
View ArticleBaillie accuses Scottish Government of hypocrisy on pay day loans carrot
First Minister Alex Salmond promised yesterday [4th August] in a media interview that in an independent Scotland, his government would cap interest on pay day loans.Jackie Baillie, Labour’s MSP for...
View ArticleLandowners’ failure to sign off on community wind farm brings disappointment...
Some disappointing news has come in from the Rosneath Peninsula West Community Development Trust. While the Trust is as manically busy as usual on the range of its community interests, one of its...
View ArticleSNP welcomes overnight counts for Independence Referendum
The following press release has just come in from the SNP media team:‘A commitment to allow overnight ballot counts in the Referendum Bill Committee’s Stage 1 Report has been welcomed by the SNP.‘The...
View ArticleNational Coastguard SOS Campaign angered by MCA insistence on station closure...
Opponents of Government plans to close half of the UK’s Coastguard rescue coordination centres have today criticised the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) after their recent announcement which...
View ArticleFirst Minister’s snappish response to Prime Minister betrays stress
First Minister Alex Salmond has sent perhaps a premature response to Prime Minister David Cameron’s refusal to enter the debate between Scottish residents on the future of Scotland.Mr Salmond had asked...
View ArticleUK Energy Minister lays out specifics of Scotland’s inability to fund North...
In a fringe session at the ongoing Conservative Party conference, Michael Fallon, UK Energy Minister, spelled out the scale of the commitment the UK Government has made to the oil and gas industry to...
View ArticleProject Fear finds second home but the real fear is how we pay for the ever...
Following its now concluded annual conference, the SNP has voluntarily disqualified itself from issuing any allegations against the pro-Union campaign of the grounds of promoting ‘Project Fear’.The...
View ArticleScotland’s leaders appear confused on independence
Scottish Conservative Finance Spokesperson, Gavin Brown is clearly wide awake on watch.Yesterday he pointed to the fact that, during the current tour to China, the First Minister told financiers in...
View ArticlePolling, Panelbase, VisitScotland and the Glasgow powerplay
A new poll published today by the Mail on Sunday shows 27% For independence, 56% Against and 17% Don’t Knows.This would appear to show no movement in public opinion on this matter, following the high...
View ArticlePro-union campaign takes the celebrity route
The pro-independence campaign has majored on celebrity endorsements from the start of their campaign. Canny Scots just raised the odd eyebrow, as some of the celebrities weren’t even eligible to vote –...
View ArticleYes camaign needs to rein back First Minister as he cuts tether to reason in...
Economists and financial sector specialists have underlined what every downhome body knows – that if you default on due debt, your credit line dies with that abandoned debt.Scotland’s First Minster,...
View ArticleMcGrigor pursues issue of unconsulted Campbeltown methadone clinic
Jamie McGrigor, Highlands & Islands MSP, has once again raised the concern of Campbeltown and Kintyre constituents over the subject of a methadone clinic in the town with the Public Health Minister...
View ArticleDown at Dunvotin’
It’s been quite a week.Dave was up at Dunvotin’ for three days of negotiations. He didn’t get a wink of sleep.Als was in a foul temper and was up all night, every night, with the fiscal levers on his...
View ArticleThe no-no campaign
It would be hard to find a more appropriately named political campaign than the ‘No’ campaign on Scottish independence.No campaign that aimed to win should ever have been let make so many and such...
View ArticleIndy and the Monarchy
Scotland’s First Minister. Alex Salmond, has spoken before about the Queen being given a separate Scottish Coronation in the event of an independent Scotland.He has hitherto been careful to refer only...
View ArticleChallenge to the Scottish Greens over support for indy
The credibility of the Scottish Greens is under increasing pressure as the genuine fragility of the prospectus for Scottish independence becomes ever more transparent.For Argyll has said from the early...
View ArticleEnhanced childcare: appearance and reality
As the pressure of the increasing proximity of the independence referendum on 18th September, it would appear that the gap between appearance and reality is, sadly, being allowed to widen.A press...
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