Webcom Radio is Now Playing: DJ Misjah - Keep Your LoveThis weeks edition sees my guests Iain Lawson, Michelle Ferns and Phil Boswell discussing the weeks events regarding Scotland. The Budget by the English Chancellor, COP26 and The First Minister’s decision not to promote Independence when Glasgow has 161 World leaders attending and Scotland has been excluded in our own country. The anger is palpable Read more about Through A Scottish Prism 31.10.21[…]
On April 7, 1934, the SNP was founded. Eleven years and exactly one week later Dr Robert Mcintyre won the first ever SNP Westminster seat in a by-election. He won the Motherwell seat from Labour caused by the death of Mr James Walker, the former Labour member. The SNP had stood in 30 previous by-elections Read more about Why Do We Even Bother With Westminster?[…]
A Guest Post. By Eva Comrie. Affairs of the cities – the original derivation of the word; but it has come to mean decision making, power relations, the distribution of resources, hierarchies, status. So politics in Scotland’s largest city today demands realism, recognition that as COP26 occurs, we’re neither in the driving seat nor even Read more about Politics by Eva Comrie.[…]
Yesterday Angus MacNeil, MP, exasperated and frustrated at the 5th refusal by the SNP Conference Committee to allow a debate on a Plan B tweeted his disappointment. Now he has taken to the Unionist P&J to try and instigate a debate on our constitutional options. Good luck to him, at least Angus knows why he Read more about Debate is Healthy.[…]
SLEEKIT SUNAK OFFERS SCOTLAND “CRUMBS FROM THE WESTMINSTER TABLE” ALBA Westminster Leader Neale Hanvey MP said: “Behind the battery of statistics and promises of billions the hard reality is that this is the Chancellor who has withdrawn £20 a week from the hardest pressed families in the country – removing £1,040 a year from Read more about CHEAPSKATE CHANCELLOR DIVORCED FROM HARD REALITY FACING MILLIONS OF FAMILIES[…]
SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT TO BLAME FOR FAILURE TO REACH A FAIR SETTLEMENT. ALBA Party Leader Kenny MacAskill MP has today backed the RMT over its proposed strike action in a motion tabled in the House of Commons. He is taking this initiative with a week to go before the start of the COP26 Summit in Glasgow and Read more about MACASKILL BACKS RMT IN COMMONS MOTION OVER STRIKE ACTION[…]
In September the Alba Party decided to hold a live-in person Conference. The venue chosen was Greenock on the weekend of 11th & 12th September. Only a matter of days after this announcement was made by the Alba Party the SNP suddenly and without warning announced they would hold their ‘annual’ Conference on the same Read more about There Are No Coincidences In Politics.[…]
I see we have another onslaught against Alex Salmond for daring to use RTV to air his weekly television show. These critics, of course, fail to mention that none of the UK Broadcasters would entertain Alex Salmond or his show on British television.They fear him, and are totally opposed to giving a Scottish independence leader Read more about Who Really Are The Bad Guys?[…]
My Guests this week are Prof.Mark McNaught and David Henry of Scottish Sovereignty Research Group. They have studied the Treaty and Articles of Union. They join me to discuss the paper they published on Scotland withdrawing from the Union. Later I am joined by Iain Lawson and Phil Boswell of the SNP to discuss the Read more about Through A Scottish Prism 24-10-21.[…]
During the 2013/14 Independence Referendum Campaign, the two sides chose very different strategies. The YES Campaign for its part decided Hope over Fear was the way to convince the people. A very positive campaign was run. Lots and lots of public rallies and gatherings and town hall meetings were arranged. Music, speeches of positivity, everyone Read more about How To Win & How To Lose.[…]