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Cllr Fraser Macpherson (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Liberal Demorat Voice ( http://www.libdemvoice.org/ ) is the best read independent website for LibDems – is run by a collective of Liberal Democrat members, activists and bloggers. Here in Scotland, we have a small collective of bloggers (if 'collective' isn't too soviet sounding for a LibDem!) who take turns to write articles for LibDem Voice under the title "Haggis Neeps and Liberalism."...
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Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
....David Kerr candidate for Glgasow North East, John Mason MP for Glasgow East and Stewart Hosie SNP Tresury Spokesman. Yeah, Tam Smith SNP PPC for Linlithgow and Falkirk East is back at his Rory Bremner act, this time taking on all three without crediting any. Today he is saying : "Scotland's banking workers deserves more than a direct line to the breadline. These reforms must not jeapordise...
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Planet Politics (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
While Iain Macwhirter's critique of Professor Tom Gallagher's 'blood and soil' thesis on Scottish nationalism is rebutted with a letter from the latter in this morning's Herald , it seems unlikely that the opposing concept of 'civic nationalism' holds much sway with Labour's Dundee West MP Jim McGovern. Responding to last week's controversial appearance by British National Party leader Nick Griffin...
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Planet Politics (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
A couple of interesting recent quotes on economics/public finance from two of the SNP's leading figures in Dundee. In the Courier council leader Ken Guild has warned of significant savings required in Dundee City's Council's budget to avoid council tax increases in the coming years, and has indicated that the city's no compulsory redundancies policy might not be sustainable. Naturally, Mr Guild is...
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A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Eleven reasons why Stewart Hosie’s and the SNP’s erstwhile role-model, Iceland, remains "much-maligned":1. Its stock market has lost 97 percent of its pre-crash value.2. 780 companies have “buckled under the weight of foreign currency loans”. 3. Three banks; Kaupthing hf, Landsbanki Islands hf and Glitnir Banki hf have $80 billion in debt, 16 times Iceland's economic...
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SCOTLAND NEWS INFORMATION BLOG. (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
SNP Conference Diary - Sunday 18th October 75th Annual SNP Conference Conference Diary Sunday 18th October 2009 1000 Resolutions Independence Public Service Spending Calman Commission GM Crops Identity Fraud Gift Aid 1030 Keynote Speech Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Environment, Richard Lochhead 1050 Resolutions cont... 1200 Update on the Scottish Government Programme 2009-10 led by Minister...
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The Grumpy Spindoctor (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Putting to one side the comments last weekend by former Irish taoiseach Bertie Ahern, that breaking away from the UK was “easier said than done”, yesterday at the fantasyfest that passes for an SNP conference, Stewart Hosie MP raised the notion of an 'arc of recovery'. (One would have thought that after the carcrash that was their 'arc of prosperity', they would have steered well clear...
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Planet Politics (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
While the 'arc of prosperity' - the small, independent and economically successful European countries such as Norway, Iceland and Ireland on which the Nationalists wished to model an independent Scotland - became the 'arc of insolvency' with the world economic meltdown, the SNP's Treasury spokesman Stewart Hosie has perhaps attempted the political equivalent of turning water into wine by rebranding...
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The Grumpy Spindoctor (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Salmond's Scotland post independence 'English Treasury is ‘dragging Scotland down’, SNP claim' The Herald. That would be the 'English' Treasury that bailed out the 'Scottish' banks, RBS and HBOS with UK taxpayers cash..saving millions of Scots' savings and mortgages and keeping thousands of Scottish businesses afloat in the worst recession since the Thirties. 'Dragging Scotland down' -...
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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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Planet Politics (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
Alex Salmond's recent confrontational and perhaps counterproductive stance with regard to Diageo's restructuring plans brought to mind a local issue that created acres of news coverage a couple of years ago. SNP MP Stewart Hosie took up numerous grievances with Dundee City Council on behalf of elements of the city's taxi trade, and this created not a little controversy. Strike meetings were called...
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Malc in the Burgh (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
The following is a list of Scottish MP websites. List of MSP websites here . (51) MPs with websites: Danny Alexander LD ~ Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey ( Twitter ) Douglas Alexander Lab ~ Paisley Renfrewshire South Gordon Banks Lab ~ Ochil & Souh Perthshire John Barrett LD ~ Edinburgh West Anne Begg Lab ~ Aberdeen South Russell Brown Lab ~ Dumfries & Galloway Des Browne Lab ~...
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Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
You could almost see it coming, Sky issue an ultimatum to the leaders for a television debate and Alex Salmond demands to be part of it . Stewart Hosie the SNP Westminster whip claims: "Sky must meet its obligations to audiences across the UK – and so any debate involving Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg would have to include Alex Salmond. " As I pointed out early last month...
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SNP Tactical Voting (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
Just when Gordon Brown thought the mountain he has to climb before May 2010 couldn't possibly get any higher this poll comes out. It's all very well that Labour will hoover up parts of Scotland and North England but in many of the seats the party really needs to win to have any chance of beating the Tories and staggering into a hung parliament they are a massive 24% behind . Granted, the poll is conducted...
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