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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
They said: "Scotland's most loved and loathed columnist - he baldly went where nobody else dared." And he's still at it! Scottish life...Scottish and UK politics ... media ... and things that p*** you off ...
NOTE: Normal Service is now resumed (Jan. 30, 2009). Thanks to our NHS and the truly wonderful staff at Gartnavel Hospital, Glasgow, I have been given the 'all clear'. Special thanks to all of you who took the trouble to e-mail and ask about me. It made a great difference to know that you were concerned.
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SNP - government but not power |
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009 |
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SNP - THE 'POLO
MINT GOVERNMENT'
‘IN government but not in power’. How ironic that the dismissive description of a Tory government can now be applied to the so-called SNP ‘government’ in Scotland. It is known derisively as the ‘Polo mint government’ – with a hole in the middle where achievable policies should be.
There is no doubt that the wheels are coming off Alex Salmond’s minority administration just before it reaches the halfway stage in its term of office. As their key manifesto policies collapse one by one, the Nationalist executive are hog-tied by their minority status and look like spending the remaining two-years as a limbo government, clinging to office but unable to achieve anything significant.
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Scottish Labour conference |
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 |
SCOTLAB: BLETHERS
BUT NO ANSWERS
AS Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Scottish Labour seem content to blether while the country goes to hell in a handcart. The so far unanswered question is: What do they have to offer Scotland in this time of crisis?
Yet the impotence of the Scottish branch of the Labour Party – a huff-and-puff Opposition at Holyrood, coalition partners in councils they once dominated and meek followers of their masters at Westminster – is only too clear in the programme and background of this weekend’s party conference in Dundee.
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