Taking Stock 2: The SNP and YES

Taking Stock 2: The SNP and YES

    I am still trying to come up with some idea of why I feel that we have lost some focus, some direction. The conclusion I keep coming back to is the relationship between the SNP and the YES movement. But first I want to reflect back a little to the general...
Taking Stock

Taking Stock

Sometimes things are better in the cold light of day, today is that day for some of us as the result of the General Election sinks in. There were no real winners yesterday, not really. Scotland appears to have found its level, the Tories didn’t win, they are now in...
The State of This (Union)

The State of This (Union)

On the 18th of April, Theresa May called an election which was not required, so she could increase a majority she already had, so that she’d have a mandate she didn’t need to negotiate with an EU delegation which doesn’t care about such mandates. She ran a...
King Makers or Court Jesters

King Makers or Court Jesters

  ALL of a sudden the English press is introducing the DUP to the rest of the UK as if they’re this new party sprung up as a result of increased sectarianism in Northern Ireland. But if they’d have paid attention, they’d have realised they’ve been there all along...
For the Many . . . .

For the Many . . . .

There are lots of positive writings about Jeremy Corbyn and Labour this weekend and in my next couple of Blog entries I’m going to add to these messages. Having supported Labour all my adult life I joined the Labour Party last summer (I’m sure I...