No alternative
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
What a ridiculous piece of fiction Wendy Alexander has produced with her "There is no alternative: Calman is only way to go" (Opinion, 25 November).
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Alexander's error
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
In what can only be described as a narcissistic and condescending article, disgraced ex-Labour leader Wendy Alexander assures us there's only one credible position on Calm
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Wendy Alexander: There is no alternative: Calman is only way to go
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
TWO years ago, on St Andrew's Day 2007, I proposed a new commission on the Scottish constitution. A week later, the Scottish Parliament embraced the concept, the UK govern
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If you want Home Rule...
Yapping Yousuf (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Within the next few days Jim Murphy, (Scotland's man in the cabinet in case you forgot!) will publish a white paper implementing the proposals for the Calman Commission, probably to be enacted after the next General Election. The big one is on taxation. If the Telegraph is to be believed the proposals for income tax will be implemented. This means that income tax set in the Budget at Westminster will...
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Gray's Theorem, or, The Identification of a Need Creates the Finance to Meet It.
Justified Spinner (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
A few years ago, Wendy Alexander marched into a meeting of telecomms providers in Scotland, and stated that they should be able to cable the Highlands for £5m. Given that the cost per metre for cabling broadband links was in the region of £130, there was a lengthy pause in the proceedings, whilst everyone tried to find a way of explaining to Wendy that her decimal points were in the wrong...
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Lib Dem weekend
Blether with Brian (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Liberal Democrat leaders have frequently found their own party thoroughly exasperating. Their persistent demands for internal debate; their frequent obsession with the niceties of party rules; their occasional bouts of smugness; their inherent tendency to rebel. Tavish Scott is, himself, not that far removed in age from the Pestilential Tendency among the youth wing of his party. However, he has always...
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The SNP's fixation with Labour is proving their undoing
The Grumpy Spindoctor (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
It’s fair to say that there’s no love lost between the Scottish National Party and the Labour Party. I’ve seen that antipathy with my own eyes. First after the announcement of Helen Liddell’s victory in the Monkland’s East by-election back in 1994 when an angry mob of disappointed nationalists indulged in a particularly unpleasant form of verbal and physical intimidation,...
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Facing up to the tough issues
The Grumpy Spindoctor (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
John Swinney: "We will use and are using every lever that we have at our disposal to support economic recovery. Of course, I would like the Scottish Government to have a fuller range of powers — I have spent my entire adult life trying to secure that, and I will continue to do so." The Scottish Parliament Official Report 29th October 2009. The SNP seek to lead Scotland to independence...
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Donations-row MSP returns to Labour's front bench
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
THE Labour MSP whose actions helped to bring down Wendy Alexander as Scottish party leader has been handed a key job in its front-bench team.
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Donations-row MSP returns to Labour's front bench
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
THE Labour MSP whose actions helped to bring down Wendy Alexander as Scottish party leader has been handed a key job in its front-bench team.
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A strategy suit with a jelly pocket?
Lallands Peat Worrier (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
So tailor Gray has been giving the inner seam of his party a good feel. Nimble, nicotine-yellow fingerlets moving apparently with purpose, aiming for an ultimate political parp at the next Holyrood election. Brushing off the outfit’s shoulders, smoothing the bunching of responsibilities around the gonady tumescence of Andy Kerr, letting the raptoresque Rhona Brankin return to her family roost...
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Gray: Alexander has 'big future'
BBC News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray predicts a political comeback for predecessor Wendy Alexander as he announces a reshuffle.
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'A simple proposition'
Blether with Brian (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Intriguing speech by Iain Gray at the Labour conference in Brighton . Three themes: a sustained personal attack on Alex Salmond; a warning to his own party to remain united and, most intriguing of all, a nod to the prospect of a future referendum on independence . The Salmond attack was fairly familiar stuff, spiced with the suggestion that the SNP would favour a Conservative victory at the UK general...
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Vince Cable at Guardian fringe – live
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
Lib Dem Treasury spokesman and others debate how to fix politics, with Guardian's Simon Hoggart in the chair 1.23pm: Swinson is next. She says she would love to say to the Lib Dems: "Go back to your constituencies and prepare for constitutional reform." But she's not going to pretend that's the answer to all the problems. 1.22pm: As examples of politicians falling foul of regulations, he...
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MSP Website Directory
Malc in the Burgh (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
The following is a list of MSPs with websites and a link to their site (as well as a list of those without websites/ those who have websites that haven't been updated for a year or the link is "under construction"). Hope it is useful. Let me know if I've missed any, or if you discover any more Twitterers... they're often interesting... They're also in the sidebar on the far-right of the page....
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