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Brown’s reign of terror, Police State UK – is it time for Scottish independence?
It emerged last night (29th November 2008) that Tory MPs have been so concerned about their private offices being, covertly bugged that they have regularly had them ‘swept’. This says a lot about an...
View ArticleAlan Reid raises Bank responsibility to Islay at Westminster
Yesterday (19th November) in Westminster, Alan Reid, Argyll & Bute’s MP, raised the issue of the Bank of Scotland’s treatment of Islay in the withdrawal from the island of its Business Manager.He...
View ArticleMather nails Government and MoD confusions over SAR privatisation
Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP, is concerned about the confusion that has accompanied the Ministry of Defence announcement that it is to privatise Search and Rescue (SAR) Services long based at HMS Gannet at...
View ArticleHolyrood Health Committee recalls Whyte & Mackay and Tesco
Misleading evidence given by whisky distiller Whyte and Mackay and supermarket giant Tesco to the Scottish Parliament’s Health Committee, has led to the committee’s Convener, Christine Grahame, MSP,...
View ArticleStrange Cameron outburst in Commons
Close to shrieking about the failure of the SNP to roll over in the face of the game moves from Westminster over the coming independence referendum, the Prime Minister in the House of Commons earlier...
View ArticleScottish Affairs Committee slams Crown Estate Commission
Westminster’s Scottish Affairs Committee has had a welcome rush of blood to the head, saying that the Crown Estate’s Scottish coastal, seabed and related rights and responsibilities should be devolved...
View ArticleCommons Culture Committee loses all perspective in Murdoch declaration
The Commons Culture Committee – or part of it – has delivered itself of a headline conclusion that Rupert Murdoch is ‘not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international...
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SNP Government to cede control of Scotland’s coasts to a call centre in...
The House of Commons Transport Select Committee this week convened a second hearing into the UK Government’s plans to ‘modernise’ the Coastguard service by closing ten coastguard stations – including...
View ArticleReassuring? Transcript of Shipping Minister’s appearance before Transport...
This is the transcript of the appearance on Monday 22nd October before the House of Commons Select Committee of first, Shipping Minister Stephen Hammond MP; and following him, the Chief Executive of...
View ArticleTransport Minister’s token meeting on Coastguard closures
Transport Minister Keith Brown has found it incumbent upon him to meet the UK’s new and underinformed junior Transport Minister to discuss the proposed closure of Clyde Coastguard.Forth Coastguard was...
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Russell Bruce: Scotland still in EU after independence
Twitter, I am informed, has been set alight by a House of Commons report. Namely HC 643 The foreign policy implications of and for a separate Scotland. Bloggers are out in force quoting from the paper...
View ArticleHow big business cuts corporation tax
With the House of Commons Select Committee now grilling international corporations [like Starbucks] on how they manage their tax affairs, there is a lot of interest and anger at the extent to which...
View ArticleReferendum Bill Committee unanimously approves Section 30 order
The Referendum Bill Committee of the Scottish Parliament has given its unanimous approval to the Section 30 order which transfers to Holyrood the legal powers to enable the Scottish Government to hold...
View ArticleTransport Select Committee on its report on UK coastguard situation – and...
In issuing its report today [11th December] on the Department for Transport’s plans to modernise the coastguard service, the House of Commons Transport Select Committee, in its press release, headlines...
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Transport Select Committee takes the pants off Dad’s Army coastguard...
This is something of an ‘Are you sitting comfortably?’ moment. What is to follow is a parliamentary select committee’s view of what could be a fully qualified and long running episode of Dad’s...
View ArticleStrains visible across UK coastguard service
With the Department for Transport and the Maritime and Coastal Agency [MCA] driving a ‘modernisation’ of the coastguard service around the UK that has already cost Scotland Forth Coastguard and Clyde...
View ArticleWind energy: so what DO the Department for Energy and Climate Change know?
The following are exchanges in the House of Commons between Labour MP for Workington, Sir Tony Cunningham and Gregory Barker and John Hayes MP – each Ministers in the Department of Energy & Climate...
View ArticleNeil Kinnock not to attend Thatcher funeral
Former Labour Leader, Neil Kinnock – the man who blew out Labour’s chances of defeating John Major in the 1992 election, with the absurdly triumphalist rally at Sheffield a week before the vote – will...
View ArticleUK government backtracking furiously on reported interest in annexing Faslane
Yesterday’s Guardian, 10th July 2p13, reported that Government officials in the Ministry of Defence are exploring the possibility of making Faslane – and presumably Coulport – UK sovereign...
View ArticleThe art of misinformation
An SNP press release yesterday headlined the shocking fact: ‘Scots now elect only 4 per cent of the UK Parliament following the expansion of the House of Lords.’This is a classic example of sleight of...
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