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Computing.co.uk (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Parliamentary reporter, Computing , Friday 13 November 2009 at 14:27:00 The Home Office insists moor rescue was the result of communications data The Home Office has come under attack for attempting to justify its proposals to force Communications Service Providers to keep communications data for a year by falsifying a case study. A Home Office document outlining the plans said that the rescue of...
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John Rentoul (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
At last the second instalment of the serialisation of Sir Ian Blair's memoir, Policing Controversy , in today's Mail on Sunday comes to the bit we have been waiting for. For three and a half years the public has been entitled to know more about the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner's reasons for ordering the "cash for honours" investigation on the basis of an SNP press release in the...
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The Grumpy Spindoctor (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Earlier this week the SNP patted itself on the back for promptly disclosing that six of its MPs, including the Member for Banff and Buchan would pay back any sums that Sir Thomas Legg's independent audit of MP's expenses claims ruled they owed. Just to recap, Mr Salmond was asked to repay £710.88, as part of the inquiry into MPs expenses, in a claim lodged for removal costs from London to Aberdeenshire...
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Whitehall 1212 (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Over the course of yesterday we were able to contact about 30 out of the 59 Scottish MPs to find out what Sir Thomas Legg had asked of them and to gauge their response. The list is reproduced below but bear in mind this is only about half of the Scottish cohort and that one or two were not willing to discuss details until they had responded to Sir Thomas. Danny Alexander, LD, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch...
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SCOTLAND NEWS INFORMATION BLOG. (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
DEMAND FOR MoD TO PAY COSTS AFTER CONSULTATION CLIMB DOWN. Demands for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to compensate Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) and HIE for costs incurred in the successful campaign to save 125 local defence range jobs in the Hebrides have been made by the areas local MP. Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil said the UK Government should pick up the £100k tab for...
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Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 02/08/2009
Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy faced fresh calls to stop children being held at Dungavel detention centre. Nationalists say it is a year since Mr Murphy committed to ending the practice when he announced a pilot scheme offering an alternative to the detention of children of failed asylum seekers at the centre. But SNP Scotland Office spokesman Angus MacNeil said that Florence Mhango, 32, and her 10-year-old...
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 16/07/2009
WESTERN Isles SNP MP Angus MacNeil has launched an online petition to urge the government to reconsider proposals to shed 125 defence jobs at a rocket range in Uist.
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 16/07/2009
WESTERN Isles SNP MP Angus MacNeil has launched an online petition to urge the government to reconsider proposals to shed 125 defence jobs at a rocket range in Uist.
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Whitehall 1212 (Free subscription) | 17/06/2009
This just in, more in the Herald tomorrow and on my Herald blogsite. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed plans to cut 125 jobs at the Hebrides missile range in South Uist and to control firing operations remotely from a rival Welsh base at Aberporth. The loss of 125 jobs, about one in six of the workforce in the Southern Isles, will have a devastating effect on the Western Isles economy. Highlands...
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Iain Maciver writes ... (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Yep, the two of them are still firmly on the fence. Just hot air. Angus Macneil managed to make his statement the clumsiest and most boring of the year so far by sticking in the word ‘nuanced’. ……… Angus Macneil said: “My position on Sunday sailings to Lewis is quite nuanced on this complex argument not given [...]
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Iain Maciver writes ... (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Wham. Bam. Kapow. This is fantastic. It is going to be the best week in Western Isles local politics for years. The nicotine-stained streetfighters who are now running the local LDOS have given Angus Macneil and Alasdair Allan just 24 hours to say where they stand on Sunday ferries. Or what? Er, actually they forgot to [...]
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 25/03/2009
A plan by SNP MP Angus MacNeil to allow MPs to “vote in their slippers” from the comfort of home when the journey to London is impossible has been dismissed as an attempt to turn Westminster into an X Factor-style television game show.
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Whitehall 1212 (Free subscription) | 24/03/2009
Angus MacNeil MP is usually a canny lad so why he has left an open goal for opponents with his early day motion on remote voting is a bit of of headscratch. I understand his frustration, I know the distances, but viewed from the "centre of the universe" in London this looks like he's trying to schlepp off work. The EDM has attracted only one signature so far - his own. In any case here's...
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Two Doctors (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
When the Nats decided to attack Nick Clegg's weekend with his new baby, what made them think Angus Macneil was the right person to take that on ? Labour should also be ashamed of themselves for their contribution. They couldn't even find a named person to get ugly with the Liberals: perhaps John Prescott was busy.
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Iain Maciver writes ... (Free subscription) | 05/03/2009
"the English are every bit as good as the French and the Germans and can govern themselves without any help from the Scots"
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