SCOT goes POP!: VOTE : What is your favourite type of dictatorship...

SCOT goes POP!: VOTE : What is your favourite type of dictatorship...: Some more festive fun for you, ie. I'm feeling too lazy to do a proper post.  If Britain had to abandon its democracy tomorrow (OK, semi...

Peter A Bell: The circus is in town

Peter A Bell: The circus is in town: Ladies and gentlemen! Fluffy Mundel's Lying Circus proudly presents, David "Trapeze Man" Torrance! Watch with barely suppresse...

SCOT goes POP!: Seven things that will happen if Britain votes to ...

SCOT goes POP!: Seven things that will happen if Britain votes to ...: 1) The cause of a united Ireland will be back with a vengeance.   We've become used to polls showing that a large chunk of the nominally...

Peter A Bell: Legal depravity

Peter A Bell: Legal depravity: When I hear Scottish Labour justice spokesman, Graeme Pearson , refer to the need to "choke off supply" I despair. He seems to be ...

Thursday, 24 December 2015

SCOT goes POP!: Should the SNP support Cameron's plans to weaken t...

SCOT goes POP!: Should the SNP support Cameron's plans to weaken t...: Here's an interesting discussion point, given that I know how most of you feel about the House of Lords.  At some point next year, the C...

Wednesday, 23 December 2015

Tommy Ball's Blog: Spanish election; Scottish consequences

Tommy Ball's Blog: Spanish election; Scottish consequences: Victory to the forces of radical socialism and the smashing of post-Franco consensus capitalism! Well, not quite. But it’s a start. ...

Munguin's Republic: MUNDELL IN A MUDDLE OVER WHEN THE 1990s WERE...

Munguin's Republic: MUNDELL IN A MUDDLE OVER WHEN THE 1990s WERE...: You mean in that last 6 months of the 1990s when parliament was just setting up and Holyrood was a royal palace? DUH! That's the tro...

SCOT goes POP!: Despair for Dugdale as SNP soar to 34% lead on the...

SCOT goes POP!: Despair for Dugdale as SNP soar to 34% lead on the...: It's been a long time since we've had a full-scale Scottish Parliament poll.  The most recent one was the Ipsos-Mori phone poll whic...

Peter A Bell: The transition

Peter A Bell: The transition: One might reasonably expect that the British establishment's cheerleaders in Scotland would learn something from this poll . But that...

SCOT goes POP!: We can, citizens

SCOT goes POP!: We can, citizens: If the Portuguese election result a couple of months ago was a touch complicated, tonight's Spanish election result is truly epic.  Once...

SCOT goes POP!: "Just forget about Scotland", part 2

SCOT goes POP!: "Just forget about Scotland", part 2: I've been having a listen to the Polling Matters round-up of 2015, in which Rob Vance has once again been doing his "just forget a...

The Scottish Scaremonger: The Smoking Gun...

The Scottish Scaremonger: The Smoking Gun...: Introducing " S moking Gun "  - a new service from The Scottish  Scaremonger.  T here is a constant demand in tod...

Tommy Ball's Blog: Taking over Scottish Labour

Tommy Ball's Blog: Taking over Scottish Labour: In May, Scottish Labour are set for another shattering defeat, their second in a year. In May past, they were utterly trounced in elections...

Tarff Advertiser: When your enemies agree ....

Tarff Advertiser: When your enemies agree ....: I am finding it interesting how the left wing groupings are agreeing with the right wing groupings in Scotland just how dangerous the curre...

SCOT goes POP!: Corsica follows in the footsteps of Scotland and C...

SCOT goes POP!: Corsica follows in the footsteps of Scotland and C...: Understandably, the mainstream media in the UK have been most interested in the French regional elections because of the failure of the Nati...

Lallands Peat Worrier: Ian Bell

Lallands Peat Worrier: Ian Bell: Term is over, teaching done, the sun is shining and the rain falling. But there's a shard of ice in this morning, in the news tha...

SCOT goes POP!: Genuine question for Dan Hodges : if Jeremy Corbyn...

SCOT goes POP!: Genuine question for Dan Hodges : if Jeremy Corbyn...: Merciful Dan Hodges has at last given Jeremy Corbyn some respite.  Just for once, it's Hodges' own fellow travellers in the PLP who ...

Lallands Peat Worrier: No vindication here. Only survival.

Lallands Peat Worrier: No vindication here. Only survival.: "We had no concerns about the credibility and reliability of the witnesses, with one exception." A teller of "blatant&quot...

Tommy Ball's Blog: Third party; Fifth Column

Tommy Ball's Blog: Third party; Fifth Column: Tonight's shameful display by a gang of hard-Right extremists masquerading as Labour MPs has finally clarified a situation which has be...

SCOT goes POP!: The STV political correspondent who thinks that "S...

SCOT goes POP!: The STV political correspondent who thinks that "S...: There can be little doubt that STV are delighted to have Stephen Daisley as an online correspondent, and in some ways that's perfectly u...

SCOT goes POP!: YouGov subsample suggests Scotland is opposed to b...

SCOT goes POP!: YouGov subsample suggests Scotland is opposed to b...: When YouGov produced its dramatic poll on the eve of the Commons vote on Syria showing that support for air strikes had slumped, the fieldwo...

The Mo' Flo' Mojo: Hilary Benn's great war speech: a paraphrase

The Mo' Flo' Mojo: Hilary Benn's great war speech: a paraphrase: Please could the PM say sorry for bullying my friend Jezza. People disagree, but that's OK. Well done to those that made interesting spe...

The Mo' Flo' Mojo: Hilary Benn's Speech: a Review

The Mo' Flo' Mojo: Hilary Benn's Speech: a Review: A highly derivative call to arms, "Hilary Benn's Speech" works at a visceral level but ultimately fails to deliver any real su...

The Mo' Flo' Mojo: A "bridge too far" too far ...

The Mo' Flo' Mojo: A "bridge too far" too far ...: When reading Brian Monteith's truly bizarre article in the Scotsman today "Is Forth fiasco bridge too far for SNP?" I was rem...

Peter A Bell: Moving on

Peter A Bell: Moving on: Just what we needed! Another London-centric politician demonstrating how little he understands Scotland's politics. Or even the fact th...

Lallands Peat Worrier: Kezia Dugdale: no time for a novice?

Lallands Peat Worrier: Kezia Dugdale: no time for a novice?: The admirable John Harris has a piece on Labour in Scotland in the Guardian  this morning : "'There's a lot I'm still le...

SCOT goes POP!: The RISE case for "tactical voting" becomes ever c...

SCOT goes POP!: The RISE case for "tactical voting" becomes ever c...: Jim Sillars has today backed the claims of RISE that it is somehow possible to vote "tactically" on the Scottish Parliament list b...

Friday, 4 December 2015

Lallands Peat Worrier: Gove: human rights "neither reserved nor devolved"...

Lallands Peat Worrier: Gove: human rights "neither reserved nor devolved"...: Does Westminster need Holyrood's consent to repeal the Human Rights Act? This blog has been asking this important question  since the...

SCOT goes POP!: For as long as unionism has 50% support, the main ...

SCOT goes POP!: For as long as unionism has 50% support, the main ...: There's a new article at Bella Caledonia by Jonathon Shafi of RISE, which is - at least in part - yet another attempt to bang the drum ...