First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced her resignation after eight years in office. Sturgeon will remain in post until a new candidate is elected. In a televised speech from Bute House late this morning, Scotland’s longest-serving First Minister said she was “a human being as well as a politician.” Explaining the decision, Sturgeon cited the […]
Your favourite forgettable leader of the Scotlandshire regional branch office of what passes for the Labour party in 2020 has survived his Julius Caesar moment. Proving once and for all that Labour can’t even beat itself. Jackie Baillie had measured up his coffin, but Ian Murray had forgotten to bring the knives with him, leaving […]
Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish First Minister and Scottish National Party (SNP) leader, told the SNP conference that it is”our job to deliver independence” in her keynote speech on Tuesday. The annual SNP conference took place last week 13-15 October at the Event Complex in Aberdeen. The conference had 72 fringe events and keynote speeches including that […]
It’s 2015. We’ve just had a General Election. And after five years of austerity and cuts, policies punishing the most vulnerable in our society, and selfish economic thinking, the UK has still voted in a Conservative majority. After weeks of projections of the coalition possibilities should we have a hung parliament, which everyone from mainstream […]
The Scottish National Party is a party in uncharted waters. Having championed the Scottish cause, their fearless politics will soon be forcefully felt around Westminster. Dominating the televised debates and punctuating political analysts’ columns, the SNP’s predicted role as ‘kingmaker’, with Nicola Sturgeon embodying the power of this role, continues to be the fact to […]