The Sarwar Dynasty in Central Glasgow Mohammad Sarwar’s peerage blocked by Inland Revenue No stranger to controversy tax investigators expressed concern about his tax affairs and soon after his election in 1997 he was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party over allegations of bribing political opponents, and stood trial for fraud. Mohammad Sarwar – officially […]

Nuclear Weapons on the Clyde An American View Hi Everyone. I’ve been following the Scottish Independence referendum campaigning for some time. Most of the fallacious arguments I’ve seen have been pretty well knocked down, but there’s one in particular that keeps cropping up which is absolutely ridiculous and needs to be dealt with. I live […]

I have great admiration for the 13,413 Dumbarton voters who on 5 May 2016 supported the SNP candidate, Gail Robertson.  So close to defeating Jackie Baillie who enjoyed a pyrrhic  victory by 106 votes. But her victory was achieved at great cost to the party she purports to support. Her stance also further confirmed the deep divisions within the Labour Party in Scotland. […]

BBC – Labour Party Bias – Not Us!!! In denying the Scottish public their right to active promotion, through broadcasting of cultural diversity with other parts of the United Kingdom the UK government and its centrally controlled BBC is in breach of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural […]

The 2019 GE Labour Manifesto Contains a commitment that a Labour party in government will: End zero-hours contracts and “bogus” self-employment. Require employers to work on tackling the gender pay gap or face fines. But Richard Leonard has no authority to do anything. He must comply with the instructions of the Labour Party leadership in […]

Political Fun and Games The Unionist press and media made claims that a resurgence in the fortunes of the Tory Party in the last Council elections was part-attributed to a transfer of the protestant Orange Order away from the Labour Party to the Tory Party which had courted the Order by changing its title back […]

Teenagers are running the city of Aberdeen May 2007: A review of Scottish local government in 2005-6 identified 79% of 1,200 Councillors to be predominantly male, with an average age of 55. Only 1% were under the age of 30. The review prompted the Labour party executive to lower the age limit for council candidates […]

Claim of Right “As a nation, the Scots have an undoubted right to national self-determination; thus far they have exercised that right by joining and remaining in the Union. Should they determine on independence no English party or politician would stand in their way, however much we might regret their departure.” (Margaret Thatcher) In 1954, […]

2014: Protecting the Children The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 was an Act of the Scottish Parliament passed on 19 February 2014. The legislation was part of the SNP Government’s “Getting it right for every child” policy implementation. The scope of the act made provision for the rights of children and young people. […]

Be careful who you vote for Voters have short memories when deciding who gets their vote and the criminal incompetence of the Tory government has enhanced the profile of the similarly afflicted Labour Party who are leading the polls in England. In Scotland the political gossip is encouraging talk of the resurgence of Labour albeit […]