SO now we know the spurious reasons Westminster is serving up to justify tearing up the principles of devolution and telling uppity Scotland exactly how little power it has within the confines of the Union.
IT was the stuff of legend – an innovative music policy which featured a wide range of dance music pumping from four different rooms, a stunning, up-market setting and Glasgow’s glitterati turning out in all
I SPENT most of my adult life living in a Scotland politically dominated by the Labour Party. They routinely sent more MPs to Westminster than any other party and had control of most local councils. There was a high price to pay for all those years.
I STARTED this week looking forward to what I hoped and believed would be an impressive show of unity at tomorrow’s independence march and rally. I’m ending it worn down by a stream of negativity leaving me questioning what unity actually means, if it’s achievable and if is it even desirable.
THE biggest threat to the progress of the Yes movement towards the ultimate goal of independence is not the abuse and insults thrown by those who seek to keep us imprisoned within an inflexible union. That serves only to strengthen our resolve. The more serious danger is that posed
THE prize for this week’s least surprising news story goes to the reaction to the publication of the annual GERS report. Every year the figures provide the supporters of the Union with a stick with which to beat the independence movement and this week proved no exception.
YOU have to love it when the SNP take a firm stand against blatantly unjust Westminster policies and simply refuse to impose them.
I SPENT the bulk of last Saturday afternoon helping out in a voluntary capacity at a stall set up by the Prestwick branch of the SNP at a busy gala day at the town’s promenade on the beach.
IT may have taken almost 10 years but the mask has well and truly slipped from the faces of those who have clung to the main argument devised by those who argued against independence in the run-up to the 2014 referendum.
WHEN I wrote in my column last week about Keir Starmer’s many failings, I could hardly have known how significantly the much-lauded Labour revival in Scotland would unravel as the week progressed.
