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3 Sep 2003: Swinney’s leadership ambitions under the cosh after “stalking horse” candidate submitted nomination papers
3 Sep 2003: Swinney’s leadership ambitions under the cosh after “stalking horse” candidate submitted nomination papers Although Dr Bill Wilson stood little chance of winning, Swinney’s critics hoped that a “stalking horse” bid would provoke a serious challenge to a leader whose standing with Party members had been damaged further by the loss of 8… Continue reading
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Saving the Scottish National Party from Oblivion
The Party nosedived after the GE of 2015 when Sturgeon turned her face away from the electorates’ instruction to notify the Unionists that the 1707 Treaty of Union was ending. Her decision to ignore the strongest mandate for independence ever handed to politicians in preference for retaining and indeed strengthening the Union was unforgivable but… Continue reading
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So yet again Teflon Coated Swinney Escapes the Wrath of Scottish Voters
Promotion of a political numpty Swinney, a political numpty whose 25-year career (not yet at an end) has been blotted by blunders and abject failures wasting many millions of Scottish taxpayer’s hard-earned income tax contributions escapes the scrutiny of Scots. A brief Introduction Alex Salmond resigned from the SNP leadership in 2000 and Swinney was… Continue reading
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The rapidly growing use of Drones by all sides in the Ukraine conflict brings with it a need to protect the wounded and incapacitated from unnecessary vicarious injury by zealous Drone operators satisfying the urge to humiliate weak and defenceless opponents
November 12 2013: How the USA used Sir Jeremy Heywood and Sir John Scarlett to bring an EU drone strike capability on anyone in the UK US influence in Europe and the UK aims to construct a Federal model as in the US and USSR. In this model, Parliament will become a weakened part of… Continue reading
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New York Times Report – Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart
This is a story unlike any previously published. The product of some 18 months of reporting, it tells the story of the catastrophe that fractured the Arab world since the invasion of Iraq, leading to the rise of ISIS and the global refugee crisis. The geography of this catastrophe is broad and its causes are… Continue reading
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New Labour identified, shamed, then slashed the income of “the unworthy underclass and their feral children” at the time it ruthlessly reorganised the Welfare State in 2004
The Unionist Party “Child Poverty Act” of 2010 committed the Westminster political elite to completely eliminate poverty amongst children in the UK, by 2020. But the reality for millions of Scottish children is an upbringing in poverty due to low-paid work and continued high unemployment levels which, due to welfare cutbacks will not be supplemented… Continue reading
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It is Time for a Reckoning with MSPs, Ministers, Spads, Civil Servants and Quangos
I am a member of ALBA and am advancing views for the Party to consider incorporating as policy before the next election. Introduction The Scottish electorate should decide upon the standards of behaviour expected of individuals employed by the Government and those elected to office as MSPs and Ministers and the punitive measures to be… Continue reading
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Clegg’s unfruitful extended pursuit from Civil Servants and government officials of information that would be that would be damaging to Alex Salmond was in direct contravention of the news editor’s “code of Practice”. Harassment: Journalists must not engage in intimidation, harassment or persistent pursuit.
Extracted from: “Break-Up: How Alex Salmond And Nicola Sturgeon Went To War” written by former Daily Record political editor David Clegg and Times journalist Kieran Andrews. “This was not the first occasion during my time as political editor of the Record that I had been given cause to suspect Salmond could be a potential subject… Continue reading
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BlackRock: The Secretive Company that owns the World, Hakluyt & Starmer have Scotland in their sights
Blackrock exposed: Starmer saved Labour from ‘extremism’ under ‘Marxist leader’, says BlackRock CEO Keir Starmer has been backed by one of the world’s most influential financiers, Larry Fink, the chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, as he said the Labour leader now offers a “measurement of hope” by showing “real strength”… Continue reading