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Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2011 10:04 PM
We can't help feeling we should be exercised over the Scottish Tory election, but frankly, the party seems so hell bent on destroying itself one way or another that it’s impossible for even political nerds like us to maintain much enthusiasm for the details. The most interesting press contribution we’ve seen so far came fromKenny Farquharson in last week’s Scotland on Sunday; if Murdo Fraser wins, he thinks, and presumably, all goes according to plan, the formation of a new centre right party believing in devo-max will galvanise those of all parties who support this putative second option on the referendum ballot. |
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Posted on Monday, April 18, 2011 1:39 PM
Archie Stirling explains why he's not standing for Holyrood this time round... "The country's voters are being short-changed, with the party machines determining the shape of the Scottish political landscape With the Holyrood election campaign now in full flow, the more assiduous among you may have noticed that neither my name nor that of my party, Scottish Voice, is among the runners and riders. After my first (and expensive) attempt to become an MSP in 2007, I thought long and hard before deciding to eschew a second opportunity to make my principal place of work that architectural aberration at the foot of the Royal Mile. |
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Posted on Tuesday, February 08, 2011 9:39 PM
If ever there was a time to throw something at your television, it was during last night’s Newsnight Scotland. The main news of the day was the documentary circus that has been swirling round the release of the Lockerbie bomber, ever since that momentous afternoon when Kenny MacAskill did a personable impression of John Calvin in the High Kirk. Now we learn that Kenny has been taking the flak all this time when he was only doing, wittingly or not, what the Labour government down south was praying he would. |
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Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 6:06 PM
One hundred days to go and open season on politicians begins. In today’s Scottish Daily Mail Tom Brown has written a scathing attack on MSPs that goes far beyond expenses scandals and public apathy. When George Galloway called them mediocre and stumblebums he touched a raw nerve says Brown. Holyrood debates are non-debates. Embarrassing, dull. Name calling is the order of the day. Only a handful of MSPs make original and well-thought out contributions. |
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