scotland politics

Actually I am wondering is this true and if so where is the outcry that would be happening if Cameron had done the same. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14463080.New_questions_over_Sturgeon_s___10bn_China_deal_after_firm_linked_to_illegal_forced_evictions_in_Africa/?ref=ebmpn

We are in interesting times but for David Cameron's party with his increased majority, no coalition partner to keep them in check and for their party no change in Scotland.(They had 1 seat before the election in Scotland and have 1 seat after the election). I am wondering how he will balance...

Actually, it started happening within days or even hours of the independence referendum result. People started joining the SNP in droves, and the other two smaller independence-supporting parties in significant numbers. SNP membership, which had been steadily if unspectacularly growing for...

Despite all the "on-a-knife-edge" wishful thinking, Scotland has voted 55% to 45% to stay in the Union. David Cameron immediately announced that the promised additional powers for Scotland would involve a solution for the West Lothian question......in other words, Scottish MPs will have no say...

Outside Northern Ireland, the police forces (services ?) in the UK have not been routinely armed with guns for many decades now. There are specialist firearms units but the bobby on the beat does not carry a firearm. This has now changed in Scotland...

There seems a recurring theme in threads relation to Scottish independence implying that the non-Scottish portions of the UK have a negative feeling towards the Scottish and thus towards their independence I thought it might be interesting to run a poll to gauge the spectrum of opinion. I...

OK, there are lots of comments online from Scots as to whether they want to stay or leave the union, I'd like to hear from non-Scots. If you were Scottish would you vote to leave the union or stay in it? I think I'd vote yes for independence - due to the following reasons: 1) Whitehall barely...

Continued from here. Actually...... If Rolfe cared to apply some objective thinking to this small issue, she would quickly be able to realise that the bus is covered in a high-tech vinyl wrap, of a sort that's only been technically viable for a few years but which is very high-impact (which...

Is the announcement from Reuters making rounds over here. Linky. Naturally, the BBC has some more details. Like always, it looks like there were pushes for ever more "protections" for people opposed. A few interesting notes : Linky.

There's a bizarre phenomenon in online politics which is exemplified by the comments on the online Scotsman newspaper site. Every day, when the new articles appear around midnight, there's a rush to get the first comment in. Usually one particular article draws the commentators, and away they...

Some things might survive the transition easier than others: we have separate education and legal systems. But what of the big questions:- Monarchy: do we tell Brenda to take a hike? Defence: do we retain common armed forces with England, Wales and Northern Ireland? If not how do we divvy up...

According to Wikipedia, there are a round 20 parties standing, but sorry, I'm not listing the lot. If you're a devotee of the Pirate Party or Ban Bankers' Bonuses or one of Tommy Sheridan's schism parties or whatever, please say so in the thread. If you intend to vote for a different party...

Well, so far the Herald has kept many of us in Scotland amused with the day-by-day legaltainment that is Tommy & Gail Sheridan's perjury trial, however I thought it perhaps time to flag it up for discussion and make the wider masses aware of it. Quick summary for our North American cousins...

Apparently so [1] thinks Ivor Tiefenbrun (he seems to have now distanced himself now from those specific remarks), entrepreneur behind the Linn hi-fi company, and prospective (though not any more) Conservative candidate for next years Holyrood elections. Now, why would Scots (or other Britons)...

I don't know if this belongs in CT or Humour. I just had an email from a friend (which he copied to at least 40 other folk), attaching a pdf claiming the Corexit dispersants used after the Macondo blowout have shut down the entire north atlantic drift and are about to trigger an ice age in...

Interesting: http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/ Looks like Salmond has an uphill task before Scotland goes to the polls next year.

First posed by Tam Dalyell in 1977, the West Lothian Question as a term was coined by Enoch Powell. In a nutshell it pointed out that after devolution a Scottish MP (the example given was for the constituency of West Lothian) would be able to vote on matters pertaining to English voters, but...

Oh, Darat and I agreed to differ about this some time ago. He believes that a small country taken over by a larger loses its identity and can never reassert it. I don't. This isn't really subject to rational debate, because it's about feelings and beliefs, not reason. Rolfe. Split from...

High-flying executive (37) seeks gainful employment. Previous post as Chief Executive, administering a £2 billion pound budget, salary £60,000 per annum. Here's the overviews of the story. Purcell: the end of the line The fall of Steven Purcell Failed politicians, disgraced politicians...

http://www.newstatesman.com/2009/11/poll-independence-support Damn, tough spot for Salmond.

Due to be announced tomorrow, is anyone particularly excited by the SNP White Paper on independence? I don't think it's great timing. and would have been better brought in during the first year of an SNP administration given that it's pretty much their raison-d'être. We're in the middle of a...

Going for the ultimate award in tastelessness here, as the MP only died last night, but here is a thread to discuss the political implications of this. This constituency is in Scotland, and the seat is currently held by Labour with a majority of about 10,000 (compare Glasgow East where the...

Big question appears to be how well the SNP will do. Not sure about Plaid Cymru in wales.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4695270.stm Not bad for a party that lost it's leader recently.