Margaret Thatcher dies
Former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, has died this morning, 8th April 2013, following another stroke.She was unarguably politically divisive but was equally unarguably one of the monumental...
View Article10 Scottish Labour MPs don’t bother to vote for the Labour motion against the...
Yesterday’s Labour Opposition motion against the indefensible Bedroom Tax – put to the House by Rachel Reeves MP, was defeated by 252 votes to 226.The most shameful fact is that 10 of Scottish Labour’s...
View Article£8m Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq War paralysed by the censorship of the guilty
The Public Inquiry led by Sir John Chilcot into the role of the UK in Iraq between mid-2001 and July 2009 has taken four years to date since its announcement by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in June...
View ArticleBlair tries to push the west into another intervention in Iraq
The old fortune hunter must be on commission from the arms trade.
View ArticleMajor step as Labour seize the union reform initiative
In a move which, with any political nous, ought to have been taken much earlier by the sitting government of the United Kingdom in Westminster, the Labour party has done both the politically smart...
View ArticleIssues of judgment in pro-union television advertisements and in those...
Two feeble pro-union television advertisements have done the pro-union campaign no favours, with the worst the recent insulting presentation of a dimwit indecisive female figure – in a half-assed...
View ArticleJaw-dropping background to Gordon Brown’s intervention in saving the Union –...
All that was visible from the public side of things in the latter part – the emergency part – of the campaign to save the Union was that there was a point where former Prime Minister and Chancellor,...
View ArticleScotland’s opportunity to be grown up in the interests of a Federal Union
First Minister, Alex Salmond, accepted the democratic will of the Scottish people in the clear result of the referendum on Scottish independence conducted on 18th September 2014. He pledged that he...
View ArticleLabour facing its own UKIP
Mick Cash, newly elected General Secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union [RMT], has just made it known that the politics of the left could be on the brink of the same sort of polarisation...
View ArticleGordon Brown to stand down from Westminster at General Election
Former United Kingdom Prime Minister, Labour’s Gordon Brown, is to stand down as MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath at the May 2015 General Election.Having left Downing Street and resigned as Leader of...
View ArticleSpiritually generous and insightful tribute to Gordon Brown from Jim Murphy
Scottish Labour politician, Jim Murphy, the leading of three candidates for the leadership of the Scottish party which will be resolved in under a fortnight, has today published a tribute to, Gordon...
View ArticleGordon Brown: talking constitutional nonsense
Anyone can understand – and accept – that a political party with its future under threat will fight to protect its position.What is not acceptable in this struggle is outright rabble-rousing deception...
View ArticleLabour candidate for Argyll & Bute challenged by SNP candidate on Blair funding
Across Britain, in what are now known to have been 106 Labour target seats, the party’s candidates are coming under pressure from opponents to return the pocket money of £1000 which the former UK Prime...
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