Let’s see if I’ve got this right? The Westminster Labour Party has asked their Scottish Social Group, often referred to as the Scottish Labour Party, to set up a Working Group to determine the party’s 10 point General Election Manifesto ‘Vow’. This Group of Labour Illuminati may have included James Murphy, Margaret Curran, Jackie Baillie, Kezia Dugdale with special input…
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It’s Labour we need protection from
In the run-up to the General Election, Labour’s rally call, ‘vote SNP, let Cameron into Westminster’ is frankly pathetic. I read the ‘Wings’ account of actual General election statistics and a number of us have also spotted that in reality, ‘vote Labour in Scotland’ to let the Tories in at Westminster is closer to the truth. As ever, I try…
Don’t Labour over the minimum wage
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,…
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…