Labour love to self congratulate on their management of the National Minimum Wage or as some prefer to call it the ‘poverty trap’. All three UK parties toy around with the National Minimum Wage and the Living Wage. They suggest the differential should be broken down. They labour over the impact this may have on business and business competitiveness. So,…
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Dae’s yer telt
The West Lothian Question or more specifically whether or not SNP MPs should be allowed to vote on matters that affect only the English people comes into focus again. There are a number of very obvious points. Factoid: For the Labour Party this is a sacred cow. Without Labour MPs from the Scottish region (and here I am using Labour…
Imagineering
2015, the start of a new year. This year may not seem to have the same potential as 2014 because we don’t have an independence referendum scheduled. However, 2015 can and will be every bit as interesting – maybe even more so. Of course, we could have achieved independence for Scotland with a simple cross in a box – but…
Focus .. and a new game
Post referendum, there are a lot of things going on. Clearly the SNP and the Greens and probably some others are doing really well as folks rally in support and, dare I say, solidarity. Our National paper seems to be doing well – there is always one in my household. For a new daily I find it pretty good and…