Labour, have no conviction on NHS
Here is an interesting tweet from the Labour party the day before the referendum: In fact, in the last weeks of the campaign this was one of the key things we heard from Brown, Darling, Lamont,...
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Jim Murphy: The Patriot Actor
One of things both sides agreed on during the referendum campaign was that the Scottish electorate was energised, that the population was informed and engaged in political ideas in a way that had not been witnessed...
Alan Cochrane: My part in his downfall
Taking the title of your new book from the classic, Adolph Hitler: My Part In His Downfall is a brave move. However, judging by the excerpts published in the Telegraph this week, Alan Cochrane has actually managed...
The Vow Too Vague To Break
A vow that doesn’t actually promise anything can never deliver nor can it fail to deliver. The last ditch announcement was so vague that regardless of what was unveiled today, the Smith commission could be heralded...
Heal the World, but not with a Band Aid
I’m pretty confident Band Aid 2014 would raise a lot more money if they just threatened to do the record unless we all donate. Many would give heartily to put an end to the spectacle of...
Common Weal North Glasgow meeting attracts big crowd
A few days after the referendum I wrote about how in many ways we had won. I had come to realise that if you want to change things you need to start from the bottom up....
Smith’s plan will be a win win for us!
This week, when sharing this article regarding the Cross Party Home Rule campaign on various social media platforms, a few people got upset as they believed us to be promoting a Better Together group. I guess...
Jim Murphy: A Gift For SNP
The revelation that Jim Murphy is favourite to take over as the leader of Scottish Labour is great news for the Yes Coalition. It will increase the movement’s chances of decimating Labour in May and shows...
No vote saves Lloyds Jobs, Not!
The announcement of 9000 job losses at Lloyds Banking Group must have come as a surprise to a lot of No voters. The bank took part in the government enticed fear explosion in the closing days...
Salmond shows England the way
Last night I tuned in to Question Time in the hope of seeing a barnstorming Salmond performance. I expected him, now unleashed, to tear into the media bias, unashamed scaremongering, lying politicians and self serving corporate...
The Shambles of Scottish Labour
The most recent YouGov poll shows the SNP on course to steal 20 additional UK Parliament seats from Scottish Labour. In light of this it was announced on Sunday that Margaret Curran was bringing in the help...
Inequality harms our economy
During the referendum debate, a Yes vote was commonly thought of as a vote from the heart whereas a No vote was a vote from the head. In the final weeks, when the polls began to...
Big Society in Scotland must horrify Dave
All this gibberish a few years back from David Cameron about Big Society seems to be coming to fruition in a way which would horrify him. People all over Scotland have come together in the last...
Yes lost, No didn’t win
Last Friday was horrible. The anger, disappointment and heavy, desperate sadness I felt on the result of the Scottish Referendum was overwhelming. Since its inception in January, my friends and I at Autonomy Scotland have eaten,...
Fighting for Independence, we missed that we had already gained more power
The referendum results programme temporarily stole my soul. Slowly, over 8 hours all of my hopes and aspirations for Scotland seeped away from me. Every undecided I had persuaded, every hour I had researched, every word...
Yessers, we should be proud of our efforts. What Next?
Well done to everyone who was involved in the Yes Campaign. The goodwill, hope and determination displayed by you all was awe inspiring. Autonomyscotland was formed on a whim one Saturday morning by a couple of...
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