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Labour for Independence Former MSP 1 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Was having a wee think to myself about Glenn Campbell's piece where he said One former Labour MSP told me recently t...
Two grand extra to live in Scotland 21 Mar 2013 | 12:36 am
Scots pay a higher average tax than the rest of the UK. Nearly £2,000 a year more - each. £1,890.38 more to be precise. Here's how: In 2011-12 Scotland paid £56.871 billion in taxes (9.9% of the U...
Scottish Politics Twitter League 20 Mar 2013 | 10:53 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Here's a Scottish Politics Twitter League compiled earlier today - obviously not comprehensive but a bit of an intere...
Who owns our whisky? 20 Jan 2013 | 03:55 am
I was intrigued by a piece by Douglas Fraser on the whisky industry and where the market share was concentrated and the ongoing tale of the Scotch Whisky Association objecting to minimum pricing so I ...
That statement on Europe 13 Dec 2012 | 09:28 pm
Nicola Sturgeon's statement on EU membership for Scotland after independence seems quite reasonable to me - Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I am ple...
Nicola Sturgeon's 'building a better nation' speech 3 Dec 2012 | 07:40 pm
This is the text of the speech Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP is giving today: 72 544x376 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Bringing the powers home to build a bette...
Historic Polling on Independence 10 Oct 2012 | 04:58 pm
A chap I know sent me this information on historic polling on indpendence and said he thought people might find it interesting so I thought I'd post it here. CC Friday 14thSeptember 2012 and Tory ME...
Labour's proposed Council Tax rise 28 Sep 2012 | 11:29 pm
So, when Johann Lamont raised her bugle to her lips and sounded the clarion call for the people to rally to her flag she talked about ending the Council Tax freeze. Let's play with numbers: The mone...
Who's obsessed by independence? 25 Sep 2012 | 12:59 am
Here's something; the Scottish Affairs Committee is one of only two Westminster Committees with an opposition majority on it (the other being the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee). A chance for thi...
Busting an EU myth 31 Aug 2012 | 09:51 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In an article on the Public Service Europe website an anonymous columnist lays out the reasons why s/he thinks that E...
