IN politics, two things about your worldview are quite often true. One, you can stand still on your beliefs and have the same views 10 years apart but in that time the political spectrum can move past you.
ALEX Salmond was right at the weekend when he said watching the SNP throw away its lead in Scottish politics is like witnessing a car crash in slow motion.
Rishi Sunak’s backtracking on Net Zero now presents Scotland an opportunity to build an overwhelming majority of popular support behind Scotland utilising the lucrative future of North Sea Oil & Gas as the engine room of an independent Scotland and using the revenues to race ahead of the rest of the UK by using Carbon Capture Technology to mitigate a large share of all of
IN 2014, “Project Fear” told the people of Scotland that the North Sea was about to run dry.
FOR me, the belief in Scottish independence will always be contemporary for all times and for all circumstances.
I MISSED the Hampden downpour last week as I was in London to witness the Alba Party’s Westminster leader, Neale Hanvey MP, set out the findings of a key legal opinion on Scottish Independence.
WHEN Scotland becomes an independent country, weapons of mass destruction will be removed from the Clyde. Nuclear warheads are only stored at HMNB Clyde for the sole purpose of being mated to Trident II D-5 missiles before they are loaded onto nuclear submarines.
WHEN Alex Salmond signed up Jimmy Reid to the SNP, that’s when I knew I also had to join. As a son of the Clyde and an apprentice electrician, I remember feeling proud at work listening to older journeymen talk about Jimmy, who had helped to lead the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work in, coming out for independence.
BILL Kidd MSP’s opinion piece “Why there should be no backtracking on Trident” (September 9) is centred on Mr Kidd’s take on an interview I gave to the UK Defence Journal. Mr Kidd seems to present an narrative that I want to see Trident kept on the Clyde long-term, as well as not really understanding the subject matter.
THE Panelbase polling data released at the weekend should not be underestimated. It is, in political terms, nothing short of miraculous.
