From SNP Media: New Scottish Labour MSP Carol Mochan has accused her own party of having a ‘muddled’ policy on independence and risked having its vote fall even further in future elections in Scotland. Ms Mochan also warned that Scottish Labour could have faced ‘Liberal Democrat levels of annihilation’ were it not for the proportional voting system in place for Holyrood elections. The South Scotland MSP also panned the party’s doomed federalism policy, admitting that there is little public support for it and that it is ‘impossible for my own party to claim there is not an appetite… for another … Continue reading Labour MSP accuses own party of ‘muddled’ policy on independence

Form SNP Media: A new poll shows that people across the UK believe that people in Scotland must have the democratic right to choose our own future in an independence referendum. The Savanta ComRes poll for Left Foot Forward shows that a plurality – 39 percent – of voters across Britain believe Scots have the right to an independence referendum following the Holyrood election results, to just 34 percent who believe they do not. 46 percent of voters in Scotland back the right to another vote, compared to just 32 percent against. The SNP has said that Boris Johnson’s undemocratic attempts to deny the democratic … Continue reading Brits support second referendum

Desperate, just desperate. Professor Sir John Curtice, 67 year-old psephologist (bean-counter), has not had his second jag and the helpline didn’t help him, he says, and that is the Herald’s front-page screamer. Nothing based on nothing of no real news value to anyone, anywhere. I’ve heard more than one person praise the helpline but did not feel the need to tell the Herald about it. Journalism? Only if you have the lowest standards possible. Some real news? We’re in the middle but better than Wales, Northern Ireland or London. Wait: ‘SHOCK: South-West of England’s vaccination rate leaves Scotland behind! I … Continue reading Ooooh, how many are angry? Just one but he is a Sir Professor so…..

As the back-stabbing of Scotland’s fishing industry falls off the even the few pages it did make, the UK Government is set to betray Scotland’s hill-farmers with its Australian trade deal. In the FT and the Financial Review, below, but not featuring in Scotland’s MSM at all: UK officials said Australian and New Zealand negotiators were holding firm on demands for full tariff liberalisation, which Ms Truss was under pressure to grant in order to meet the G7 deadline, perhaps phased in over a 10-year period. But such a deal risks inflaming arguments over Scottish and Welsh independence because the … Continue reading BBC Scotland not reporting that Tories are to stab Scottish hill-farmers in the back next with Oz deal

As the PM’s partner lounges on her £9 800 sofa against £840 per roll wallpaper, Britain’s poor are thrown to the wolves. From SNP Westminster Press Office : SNP MPs have ramped up pressure on the Tory government to U-turn on their shameful decision to scrap the £20-a-week Universal Credit uplift – which would come at the “worst possible time” for millions of people. At DWP Questions in Westminster today, the party’s Work and Pensions spokesperson, David Linden MP, challenged Tory minister Will Quince to heed the warnings from cross-party MPs to make the uplift permanent and extend it to legacy … Continue reading Let them eat cushions smeared with wallpaper paste

From SNP media: The SNP today demands Prime Minister Boris Johnson immediately releases the findings of a parliament standards watchdog report into the mystery bill for his holiday to Mustique 16 months ago.According to newspaper reports, commissioner for standards Kathryn Stone believes Boris Johnson’s luxury Caribbean holiday was worth more than double the £15,000 he declared in the Commons register. Ms Stone also said the bill for the trip to the private island with fiancee Carrie Symonds in 2019 had not been picked up by Tory donor David Ross as the Prime Minister has claimed. Mr Johnson is reported to … Continue reading ‘Stench grows stronger by the day over Johnson’s suppression of watchdog findings’

I’ve been told by my GP not to read Smith or Gordon but sometimes, I get drawn in by the stupid headline. WTF can he possibly mean? Then it’s too late. He begins: TODAY’S column begins with me going to the pub and drinking Guinness, but bear with me because the pub I visited, and where it is, and the people I was with, all of it does matter. And there’s truth to be found in pubs. Even late on Friday night. Especially late on Friday night. And it raises a big question: what are reasonable people to do about … Continue reading What can Mark Smith’s ‘reasonable’ friends do about the SNP? Join? Support?

Here’s a story that does not fit. The graphs in the report above and this below from the FT tell some very newsworthy but uncomfortable stories: The BBC has sent it’s teams scurrying around the globe looking for greater Covid crises than those in England in January. Brazil, the USA and, recently, India, have provide a form of infection-porn for their viewers with ‘images that may disturb viewers’ but, hopefully, keep them watching. None ever reached the the tsunami of death in England in January. India, the most looked-at, seems to be recovering, off-screen, far below the peak in England, … Continue reading India’s second wave is slowing down

The most trusted government and politician in Europe, acted to save thousands of lives, many the mothers and fathers of those poor souls who buy this trash. Though tied to the herd immunity madness of Professor Whitty in the first months, and sabotaged by Johnson’s delays and unwillingness to control airport arrivals from infection hotspots, they have kept infections and deaths to far lower levels with clear, consistent messaging, following JCVI advice on care home vaccinations to the letter and keeping test and trace within public health authorities who know how to do it. I feel sick and angry. What … Continue reading No other country tolerates such foul lies!

The modified headline, we’ve provide for the BBC report above, seems fair in the light of this: Here is the effect of the delay, the failure to put India on the red list sooner: Given the much lower vaccination rates in these communities, deaths will follow. <br class=”Apple-interchange-newline”><div></div> Continue reading Boris Johnson: We took our eye off the ball on Indian variant deaths