Monthly Archives: April 2014

The polls for the general election next year place the Conservatives and Labour pretty much neck and neck, UKip on around 20% and the Liberal Democrats around 11% and that’s being nice. The polls appear to suggest that everything is … Continue reading →

I’ve been having a wee think about this the last couple of days and have definitely came to the conclusion that the weeks and months after the YES vote comes in the hard work has to start. The Scotland that … Continue reading →

I usually pride myself on being up to date on the nasty politics of Westminster and the continued attacks on the poor, the unemployment, the vulnerable, the disabled, the homeless, the sick, children, low paid workers…….yeah I know it’s a … Continue reading →

I wrote the blog below over a year and a half ago and was reading it again yesterday in light of Gordon ‘better together ’ Browns latest intervention to the debate. I was thinking that Brown and all the other … Continue reading →

Much has and will continue to be written about Gordon Brown and this is just my opinion. I have never understood why he is so highly regarded within Labour circles and in particular by the electorate of Kirkcaldy. I have … Continue reading →

Brian Wilson in the Sunday Mail yesterday was talking about how a vote for independence will leave behind the poor in the north of England and that somehow if you vote YES you are in fact anti-English, certainly that was … Continue reading →

There has been a lot of coverage over the last 24 hours about the fact that a million people have had to use foodbanks in the UK for a multitude of different reasons, but changes to the social security safety … Continue reading →

I have never viewed myself as British for a long time now, even though my passport and birth certificate says I am. Growing up I took for truth the things I was fed by the media and at school. I … Continue reading →

What are the ordinary man and woman in the street to make of the polls? There are polls everyday now from the standard ones from the Newspapers to crowd funded ones from Wings Over Scotland etc. This opinion piece is … Continue reading →

There will be a lot made of George Robertson’s words in New York this week regarding Scotland potentially leaving the United Kingdom; in Robertson’s words this would have a cataclysmic effect on the western world. Many will write and blog … Continue reading →