5 April 2015: Labour Party Election Promotion leaflets Leaflets being distributed by Jim Murphy in his constituency feature are given over to an elderly pensioner, David Arthur who claims his support for the Labour party is based on the promise that it will protect pensioners free services, preventing the SNP from scrapping free […]
Carol Craig Carol Craig: Close links to Gordon Brown, Donald Dewar et al. Labour Party in the West of Scotland. B.A Politics – Strathclyde University, Phd Politics – Edinburgh University. 1992. Set up her own training consultant company Enspire, 2004. Chief Executive Centre for Confidence and Well Being. July 2006. Awarded an honorary […]
Wendy Alexander Wendy Alexander: is a retired Scottish politician. She graduated from the University of Glasgow with a First Class MA (Hons) in Economic and Modern History. She later gained a postgraduate MA in Industrial Relations from the University of Warwick, and an MBA from INSEAD. After her MBA Alexander worked for Booz & […]
James Naughtie Alexander James Naughtie, (also known as Jim Naughtie) is a radio news presenter for the BBC. Naughtie began his career as a journalist at the Aberdeen Press & Journal, moving to the London offices of The Scotsman in 1977. The following year he joined the paper’s Westminster staff, and became its […]
Andrew William Stevenson Marr Is a British broadcaster, journalist and confirmed long time Labour Party supporter who began his career as a political commentator, then went on to edit The Independent (1996–98), before becoming a political editor for BBC News (2000–05) and began hosting his politics discussion show on Sunday mornings on […]
Sarah Smith An Introduction A few months before the start of the 2014 Scottish referendum campaign the BBC decided to clear out a number of Scottish based presenters replacing them with reliable Unionists. Broadcaster Sarah Smith, the daughter of the late Labour leader, John Smith who fitted the profile perfectly, was […]
BBC Scotland Controller – John McCormick In the late 1990s, a “Scottish Six news” commanded cross party support from the then controller of BBC Scotland John McCormick. But the BBC said it was “not minded” to listen because such a move would be “bad for the UK”. The Scottish Liberal Democrats called it a […]
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