Scalpay islanders accept gift of their island and partner North Harris
A majority of 197 to 8 has seen the islanders of Scalpay accept the proffered gift of their island from its English laird, Fred Taylor.Scalpay was once an island – still is, really, but in 1997, as was...
View ArticleElectoral Commission delivers findings on Independence Referendum issues
The Electoral Commission has delivered to the Scottish Government its findings on the question to be set in the October 2014 Independence Referendum and on the funding limits for the pro and anti...
View ArticleFall out from the voting at yesterday’s council meeting
Today, 15th February, has been punctuated by a series of angry responses from Cowal that two of its administration councillors, Michael Breslin and Gordon Blair, both SNP representatives, registered a...
View ArticleRobert Trythall: Aarhus Convention developments
The latest development with the EU Court of Justice acceptance of a legal challenge issued by EPAW [European Platform Against Windfarms], indicates that the implications of the Aarhus Convention to...
View ArticleSNP’s irrelevant autopilot response to Ming Campbell’s raising major issue on...
Yesterday, former Liberal Democrat Leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, raised an issue For Argyll has long made a focus for political change: the discrimination against England resulting from the UK’s...
View ArticleAnother currency scare move as Scottish Government accepts future monetary...
Another day, another pawn moves on the board as SME foreign exchange specialist, Currencies Direct, enters the debate on the key issue of which currency an independent Scotland would use.One of the...
View ArticleScare stories and blatant puffs as pros and antis focus on an independent...
[Update: Ohio image added] The pro-United Kingdom consensus needs to protest as much as anyone against ridiculous scare stories. All these do is mask the indisputable facts of the inadequacy, not of a...
View Article2014 – the year the debate will end
2014 is a date with a destiny still to be decided for Scotland and for the UK. Actually, it will be good to get it over and done with – whichever way it goes.It is already tedious and we have over...
View ArticleFirst Minister makes deal for Isle of Man flights to Glasgow – not to state...
This could hardly be a clearer signal of the Scottish Government’s tacit acceptance of the fact that taking Prestwick Airport into public ownership was a known bummer, done for political credit...
View ArticleIndy and the Monarchy
Scotland’s First Minister. Alex Salmond, has spoken before about the Queen being given a separate Scottish Coronation in the event of an independent Scotland.He has hitherto been careful to refer only...
View ArticleBoyne LIVE for Helensburgh
A massive Scottish Orange Order march, with 39 bands, 3,500 marchers and around the same number of travelling supporters is to take place in Helensburgh on the 28th June, in the Order’s traditional...
View ArticleShaming defence from FM as Salmond’s own adviser attacks young No Thanks...
The ‘attack dog’ operation on declared supporters of the No Thanks pro-union campaign has come right home to the office of Scotland’s First Minister himself.When a young woman, Clare Lally, spoke on...
View Article19th September and after
Alex Bell, Alex Salmond’s former Head of Policy, has recently said that the SNP’s planned response if it lost the Independence Referendum vote, was immediately to start campaigning for more powers for...
View ArticleSalmond accepts pound not an ‘asset’ as Treasury reconfirms legal aceptance...
In the face of increasing anxiety in the markets, Sir Nicholas MacPherson, the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, has recently re-confirmed that the United Kingdom Government stands by it’s earlier...
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