The Starmerites formerly the Blairites formerly the Thatcherites From SNP Media today: The SNP has said Keir Starmer is “out of touch“ with Scotland and his own party members – as polling reveals a clear majority of UK Labour Party members back an independence referendum. The most recent polling by YouGov reveals 60% of Labour Party members support a referendum on Scottish independence in the next few years, rising to two-thirds (67%) of those expressing an opinion, and nearly one in three UK Labour Party members (31%) think Scotland should become an independent country. The blow to Starmer comes ahead of a planned visit to Scotland this morning. Commenting, SNP … Continue reading Starmerites out of touch as two-thirds of Labour supporters agree that there should be a second independence referendum

Above, BBC Wales headlines Tory corruption and chumocracy casting doubt on the value of the Union, again. BBC England ignores the story: BBC Northern Ireland don’t surrender their love for Britain yet: BBC Scotland, that centre for quality, critical, fair journalism? Ha! Don’t make us laugh: This is only the latest in the signs of BBC Wales going ‘rogue’. Likeable rogue that is! See these: BBC Scotland shocked to hear BBC Wales accused of being pro-Welsh! In one day three Welsh hospitals with serious threats to patient safety but no word of the Tory minister BBC Wales exposes BBC Scotland’s … Continue reading BBC Wales accused of Welsh Nationalist tendencies again

The colonial mindset of fee-paying schools in Scotland is revealed by their choice of the English A-Level curriculum over the Scottish Higher curriculum, in an effort to gain advantage in entry to Oxbridge and from there into membership of UK elites. In the Herald today, this ‘top school’ and ‘one of Scotland’s most renowned independent schools’, turns out to be Clifton Hall in Edinburgh: It looks oh-so ‘top’ but is it? Well it’s not even a ‘top’ independent school. If you want your progeny to get the A grades they need to get into the ‘best’ universities, it doesn’t make … Continue reading Advert for a second-rate English colonial education posing as ‘news’

In the Guardian today: Senior government officials have raised “urgent” concerns about the mass expansion of rapid coronavirus testing, estimating that as few as 2% to 10% of positive results may be accurate in places with low Covid rates, such as London. However, leaked emails seen by the Guardian show that senior officials are now considering scaling back the widespread testing of people without symptoms, due to a growing number of false positives. On 9 April, the day everyone in England was able to order twice-weekly lateral flow device (LFD) tests, Dyson wrote: “As of today, someone who gets a positive LFD … Continue reading One more reason why Scotland’s media need to stop watching England

Mark Smith of the Herald is longing again for the golden days of the soft-right (Caring Conservatives, New Labour and the Lib Dems) in the UK, when you could enjoy your own success in an deeply unequal country, give a little more in benefits to the poor and not be upset by the too-honest celebrations of that inequality by the hard-right of the Conservative Party. He writes: I’ve just been writing The Herald’s obituary for Baroness Williams of Crosby, otherwise known as Shirley Williams, otherwise known as the woman who might have changed British politics in the 1980s but couldn’t, … Continue reading Baroness Williams of Crosby was no radical

Reworking George Robertson in 2014, when the New Labour Lord and NATO supremo suggested that ‘Forces of Darkness Would Love Scottish Split from United Kingdom‘, former Tory councillor and MEP, Struan Stevenson warns us: It is not only the people of Scotland who should witness this spectacle with fear and trepidation. Joe Biden must be pacing the Oval Office in alarm. If the SNP gets its way and succeeds in breaking up the United Kingdom, it would be a geopolitical catastrophe, not only for Scotland and the UK, but also for the United States. The SNP would destroy, at a stroke, the … Continue reading Sturgeon, a century ahead of Johnson, is Biden’s type

Douglas Ross still supports the right to buy that has starved Scotland of affordable housing yet demands that the Scottish Government fills the gap by building more housing that can then be bought and sold for profit. His confusion is stunning and has prompted this from the SNP: The SNP has called out the Scottish Tories “shameful” record on housing and plans for Scotland, stating that only both votes SNP will return an SNP Government with a bold strategy to deliver affordable housing across Scotland. It comes after Douglas Ross was challenged on Scotland Tonight over his social housing plans for Scotland. … Continue reading Douglas Ross seems to want taxpayers to subsidise house purchases

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” -Albert Einstein From the SNP: Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has reaffirmed his party’s position to support Boris Johnson and the Tories’ commitment to maintaining destructive Trident nuclear weapons on the banks of the River Clyde. During an interview on Good Morning Scotland, Sarwar could not commit to scrapping nuclear weapons and demonstrated his inability to stand up for the people of Scotland. Earlier this year, Keir Starmer confirmed that Labour would not oppose Trident renewal. Despite a … Continue reading Anas Sarwar accepts risk of nuclear holocaust on our behalf

Hot on the heels of Scottish Labour’s leaflets printed in Kettering Northants, Willie Rennie, with his scheme to give every 16 to 24-year-old Scot access to a job or training headlining in the press, offers us the above printed in London. If he can’t even get this sort of thing right what hope is there? The local SNP leaflets coming through doors in the Ayr constituency were printed in Troon. How hard can that be? Are Rennie and Sarwar just following orders? Continue reading Scottish election 2021: Willie Rennie pledges job guarantee for every young person in London

Tom Gordon digs deep into the IFS report on Scotland’s devolved taxation system and pulls out a negative nugget to suit his agenda. Lying scattered and ignored other than in a wee grudging comment, this analysis by the SNP: A study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has shown that the SNP policies on tax and benefits have created a fairer, more progressive system than is in place in the rest of the UK. The report explains that low-income households across Scotland gain much more from the SNP’s progressive tax and benefit reforms, including a top-up to the carer’s … Continue reading Tom Gordon cannot bear to say: ‘Scotland has the fairest, most progressive income tax in the UK’