Diary of an Innkeeper (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Martin Joseph played to a packed to over flowing Inn on Saturday night, I must thank all those that are supporting the music. Its a great thing to have in this area, but not easy to put on for David Mundell and his team. Scotland had a good start to the Rugby season which is more than I could say for my beloved England. They just seem to take one step forward and three back. I know Argentina are a...
Diary of an Innkeeper (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Have you ever heard of the not-for-profit organisation Ticket for Troops ? This organisation has made it their goal to offer tickets for all serving and retired soldiers, sailors and airmen. For each ticket a £1 donation is required and the proceeds go to a wide range of service charities. And the Inn is now part of it!! David Mundell was so kind to donate two tickets to any gig for this great...
aangirfan (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Garbage collectors "Thierry Meyssan exposes the corruption of the Nobel Committee and the ties between its chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland, and Obama’s associates." - Behind the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize NASA Mossad spy busted..."No wrongdoing by Israel... Japan to withdraw ships from Afghanistan support role Oil price hits new high for 2009 Mumbai, 18 Oct 2009: "A chartered...
Betsan Powys' blog (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
This is a Scottish story. The Shadow Scottish Secretary, David Mundell, is apparently regarded by some senior Scottish Tories as a problem: "the David problem". The man who shared a stage with Shadow Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan just a few weeks ago in Manchester is regarded by some of his colleagues as "a political lightweight" and "not Cabinet-level material". They...
Mr Eugenides (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Rumblings from Dumfriesshire : Senior Conservatives want David Cameron to drop his key Scottish lieutenant from a future Tory cabinet because they fear he would be no match for Alex Salmond. The Tory leader is being urged to avoid making David Mundell the next Scottish Secretary, the Sunday Herald understands. [...] It had been assumed that Mundell, a Dumfriesshire MP since 2005 and an ally of the...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
CONSERVATIVE shadow Scottish Secretary David Mundell has brushed aside claims he could lose his post if the Tories win power.
SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Senior tories don't think David Mundell, MP for Dumfriesshire since 2005, is enough of a heavy weight to warrant the job as Scottish Secretary should the tories win the next general election. Their main fear is that Mr Mundell would be no match for Alex Salmond. After seeing his performance on the BBC1 programme The Big Debate last week, I don't think he's even a match for Jim Murphy so I completely...
The Jaggy Thistle- Scotland the barbed (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Senior Tories bid to block party’s only Scottish MP from top job By Tom Gordon and Paul Hutcheon 0 comments Published on 18 Oct 2009 Senior Conservatives want David Cameron to drop his key Scottish lieutenant from a future Tory cabinet because they fear he would be no match for Alex Salmond. The Tory leader is being urged to avoid making David Mundell the next Scottish Secretary, the Sunday Herald...
Planet Politics (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
It seems that SNP MP Pete Wishart is the latest politician to be accused of being a bit indiscreet in his habits with Twitter. During this week's PMQs, where Gordon Brown started proceedings by reading a list of the 37 servicemen and women who lost their lives during the summer recess, Mr Wishart apparently tweeted: "Thought it would have been a more interesting PMQs first day back. Yawn... !"...
Scottish Tory Boy (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Conservativehome reports that the cross party campaign to save General Election night has reached the commons. Labour blogger and Glasgow MP Tom Harris has put forward the following early day motion: That this House is concerned at reports that growing numbers of Returning Officers are considering postponing the counting of votes cast on the day of the General Election until the day after polling;...
Boulton (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Details are emerging all the time of the amounts Sir Thomas Legg is asking individual MPs to repay. The Conservative Party have just released details that more than half (15) of their front bench team (including Cameron) have been fingered by the long arm of Legg (so to speak). Kenneth Clarke £4733, gardening and cleaning (under discussion); Andrew Lansley £4,482.22, mortgage and service...
Whitehall 1212 (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
An extended version of a speech and Herald interview with David Mundell, Shadow Scottish Secretary Sometime over the next few weeks in an anonymous Whitehall room in London a Conservative vision for Scotland will be mapped out in detail. Suma Chakrabarti, the Permanent Secretary at the UK Justice Department, will meet with David Mundell, the Shadow Scottish Secretary and Francis Maude the Shadow Cabinet...
Whitehall 1212 (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Labour confirmed this morning that the writ for the Glasgow North East by election will be moved as soon as parliament returns but did no one bother to tell the Conservative candidate? Ruth Davidson was one of the candidates selected to ask questions to an august panel of Tories at conference this morning, including shadow Scottish Secretary David Mundell. Instead of blowing her own trumpet and issuing...
Boulton (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
Is David Cameron - the Tory leader with the Scottish surname - cuddling up to Alex Salmond? It looks like it. Why? Because, I'm told, the Tory high command accepts that even if the party wins the general election, the very best it can hope for in Scotland is five seats and more likely only three. "David Cameron has pledged to come to Scotland for a meeting with the First Minister within a week...
Why England Needs A Parliament (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
England ignored and taken for granted. As always. It is 60% of the Union landmass, 85% of the Union population, it produces 90% of its wealth, its subsidies the three other countries and keeps them solvent. But anyone looking at the agenda for discussion on the Union at the 2009 Conservative Party conference in Manchester this coming week would think the Union consists solely of Scotland, Wales and...
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