I said I wouldn’t do it but, like a car crash, I just had to watch the Miliband v Cameron debate debacle. One commentator summed it up nicely with an analogy: it was like 2 boxers in separate rings with one referee? So what did we learn for our investment of over an hour and half of tele time? First of…
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I’m a Scot – get me out of here
There are strategies and strategies. Some strategies are open or transparent – the ones where you want your people, whoever they are, to understand what you are trying to achieve and how you intend to get there. Then there are closed strategies, sometimes called hidden agendas. There can be a number of reasons for a hidden agenda. In the case…
History is not a thing of the past
In 1707 the landed Gentry in Scotland latched on to a get richer, quicker project called the Darien Scheme. Turned out this was a scam and the greedy baskets lost around 25% of the county’s wealth. That bit many of us know. But here’s the rub. There’s a farmer in the lowlands scraping a living from potatoes. There’s a shepherd in…
Short and Sweet
My General Election campaign message is very simple. For me this is exactly what the General Election is about for all the people of Scotland. The general election is not a Referendum. Other parties will try to tell you otherwise. Many Scots were persuaded by the Referendum but felt it was a step too far at this time. The General…