Fantasy Polling
I was ignoring the Ashcroft 'poll'on the basis that it was so schonky that it might have been invented as a tale by CS Lewis during his morning ablutions but some eejits took the thing at face value...
View ArticleLabour's lies and the liars without shame
The Bedroom Tax LieMore than a week ago Labour boasted of its 'action' on the Bedroom Tax, Jackie Baillie repeated that she was bringing forward a Bill to end evictions for these arrears. We've seen...
View ArticleWhen shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain?
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrowGARL has become a political Banquo, rising to haunt Labour's Macbeth. GARL, once Glasgow Labour's greatest friend now looks as if it will be the spectre to haunts...
View ArticleIt's not the Bedroom Tax, stupid!
It's not a taxIt's neither a "spare room subsidy" nor a "bedroom tax", it's a benefit cut. It's not a subsidy because a subsidy is something paid to you in order to gain a benefit (real or perceived...
View ArticleAli D Indacash!
There's a lot of sense in Stewart Hosie's point that the argument that says "stay part of the UK, there'll be another Labour Government along sometime" is the equivalent of saying "18 years of Thatcher...
View ArticleHow hard do you work, Darling?
Yesterday I had a look at how much money Alistair Darling MP makes outside of politics (although it should be noted that he can only earn this money because of the privileged position he held in UK...
View ArticleLib Dems - it's you that's doing it
On Tuesday night I had a Lib Dem on twitter telling me that the pension facts in this Bella Caledonia piece weren't accurate because some people in the UK can afford to save large amounts for their old...
View ArticleThose pesky international treaties
Remember the hooha, the kerfuffle and the keich about all the international treaties that Scotland would have to renegotiate after independence? Was it 14,000 or so that was claimed? Treaties that...
View ArticleUpdating CBI Scotland
I've been meaning to update an old post of mine for quite a while now. It's a post from three years and four days ago about how the CBI doesn't really represent many Scottish businesses at all (90...
View ArticleWhen I was a lad, a primary school pupil, my dad took me out campaigning. I was a shy kid and didn't exactly put myself forward but I was spat on by Labour activists. These weren't the dainty spits...
View ArticleMundell and the Money Problem
The Herald has reported that Scottish Secretary, David 'Fluffy' Mundell, accepted donations worth £10,000 in this year from a property company that has a single source of income which brings in about...
View Articled'Hondt and its intrigues
There's been a bit of a disagreement here and there about how Yes supporters should vote on the regional list in May. A rare wee argument about how the AMS system works is always delightful if you're...
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Labour's tax rise and why it's wrong in very many ways
This week Labour promised a new dawn - an increase in Scottish income tax. Kezia Dugdale, who is a fine woman trying her hardest in a difficult situation (imagine trying to fashion ice sculptures from...
View ArticleDancing with Labour's tax plan
Let's give Labour's tax policy another turn around the dance floor before we go for a buster on the way home. It's a bit boring but worth looking at and you'll get a buster on the way home. Labour's...
View ArticleTwo votes? Two votes you say?
I thought I'd tell you how to use your regional list (second / Additional Member / what's this thing?) vote in the Scottish Parliament election to get the result you want if you're a supporter of...
View ArticleSchooling the Tories
A few days ago the ruler of the Tory hordes in Scotland (one Ruth Davidson, for who else could it be?) answered a charge of Tory poshness from a posh lawyer (Mr Worrier, forename Peat) in an odd...
View ArticleThe big boys want all the sweeties
The Scottish Retail Consortium wants the Scottish Government to scrap the rates surcharge on large businesses.The Scottish Retail Consortium doesn't actually exist, it's just a name that the British...
View ArticleBenefit Scroungers
Peter Chapman MSPBrowsing through Holyrood's register of interests, I came across Peter Chapman MSP. There are these four farms listed under heritable property -Until 14 July 2016 I owned a 50% share...
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Labour's train of thought is off the rails
Here's a thing - at First Minister's Questions in Holyrood today, Kezia Dugdale (Labour)(Lothian list)(Leader) claimed that a third of all rail routes in Scotland have services that are late more often...
View ArticleOrwell and a Tory
Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Tories in Scotland, made a speech about Orwell (you can read the whole thing on the Tory website if you so desire but you don't have to) and what struck me is that...
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Did Cameron Save May's Bacon?
EVEL raises its headDavid Cameron may have saved Theresa May's Government. I'd been wondering why she was so fixated on getting a deal with the DUP that gave her confidence and supply but no other...
View ArticleWhen ye lay doon wi the De'il...
Yesterday (Wednesday) there was a division on the Queen's Speech (translation from Westminsterese - a vote on the Government's legislative programme) on getting rid of the pay cap on public sector...
View ArticleNHS much healthier under the SNP than it ever was under Labour
Labour and the NHS campaignLabour, being the mendacious and unprincipled bunch of self-seeking wannabes we all know of old (I love them really), has been talking a lot recently about 'saving' the NHS...
View ArticleHubris and conceit
Labour's David Martin has called for Labour and the SNP to start working towards a coalition at the next Holyrood election in 2021. It's hubris and it's horrendously conceited and here's why -1. It...
View ArticlePoll - 39.7% Yes, 41.4% No, 18.9% DK
There was a poll… A rare poll, a rattling poll… A poll down indyref-ee-oh So, see that TNS-BMRB poll that gave such surprising results? There were lots of comments about how it wasn’t weighted to the...
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