Northern Ireland leaves Scotland frustrated in lowering alcohol limit for...
The Northern Ireland Government has taken the initiative and is to lower the limit of alcohol in the blood of drivers to 50mg per 100ml of blood from 2010.The UK Government has so far refused to lower...
View ArticleScottish Labour group manifesto set to deceive
Labour may be the first with this scam but they may not be the last. Beware of electoral promises set to mislead and deceive any unwary Scottish voter – of which there will be many.This morning...
View ArticleScottish Government calls for repatriation of Scottish ‘Crown Estate’...
There is every reason to effect change in the case of expatriated Scottish national assets and the revenues they generate by their being held in a deceptively titled portfolio (‘the Crown Estate’ –...
View ArticleJackie Baille adopts cross-party support for Scottish Government to move on...
For Argyll has published on the National Coastguard SOS Campaign’s successful petition to the Welsh Assembly.The Assembly’s Petitions Committee consequently recommended to the Welsh Assembly that it...
View ArticleBudget headlines on the hoof
Not necessarily fully comprehensive but as fast as we can keep up. Budget set to:Reward workSupport working familiesBack businessSupport aspirationNeutral budget – will neither raise nor spend more in...
View ArticleThe public purse and the ‘Yes’ campaign budget
Recent information on the Scottish Government’s diversion of significant numbers of civil servants to producing ‘work packages’ on different aspects of the independence proposition was already...
View ArticleScottish Government to use Argyll and Bute as anchor in frisky islands...
With the councils from Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles getting collectively frisky with demands for greater devolved powers, whether Scotland stays in the union or leaves it, the word from...
View ArticleAccounts Commission findings: Argyll and Bute Council at a crossroads
The Accounts Commission has now published its findings on the Controller of Audit’s Statutory Report on Argyll and Bute Council.The findings make serious reading for the council, for elected members...
View ArticleUK Government plans to devolve financial levers to Scotland – and power to...
The Scottish Government’s familiar mantra that Scotland needs ‘the levers’ of financial power in it own hands appears to have found the ear of the UK Government.Today’s, 22nd December, national media...
View ArticleWales’ First Minister pushes commitment to federal UK
Carwyn Jones, the First Minister of Wales, has launched a campaign for an early move to federalism for the UK.Speaking to members of the Welsh Assembly and reported in today’s, 26th December 2013,...
View ArticleMore ‘productive’ discussions with UK government ministers for Western and...
It’s been a busy day in London for the delegation of Conveners and CEOs from the councils of Scotland’s three main island groups, Shetland Isles, Orkney Isles and Western Isles.In their determined...
View ArticleCOSLA now facing endgame
It started as a power game to preserve the Labour party’s domination of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities [COSLA], representing all 32 Scottish local authorities in collective negotiations...
View ArticleSalmond tries to buy off Western and Northern Isles in Better Together move
Yesterday, 16th June, in Kirkwall Orkney, First Minister Alex Salmond unveiled his prospectus to quieten the restive Northern and Western Isles – Empowering Scotland’s Island Communities.In this...
View ArticleScotland’s opportunity to be grown up in the interests of a Federal Union
First Minister, Alex Salmond, accepted the democratic will of the Scottish people in the clear result of the referendum on Scottish independence conducted on 18th September 2014. He pledged that he...
View ArticleAddaction on addiction: call for review of drugs legislation in Scotland
The addiction charity, Addaction, argues, on evidence, that the criminalisation of drugs use is not supported by evidence.Today, 10th November, the Recovery conference in Glasgow [running today and...
View ArticleGordon Brown to stand down from Westminster at General Election
Former United Kingdom Prime Minister, Labour’s Gordon Brown, is to stand down as MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath at the May 2015 General Election.Having left Downing Street and resigned as Leader of...
View ArticleFirst Minister’s revelatory refusal to pay Scotland’s share of upkeep of Head...
The news that Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is refusing to pay the £2 million a year that is assigned to Scotland towards the costs of the Royal Family raises a series of questions and...
View ArticleUK government proposal on English question makes rewind of devolution an issue
It’s hard not to despair at the extent to which governments of so many persuasions lag a long way behind the direction of the electorate.The United Kingdom is more than open to being excited by the...
View ArticleWitless Cameron offers the impossible to protect the rest of the UK from...
During indyref 1 For Argyll said that it was the Union’s tragedy that all of its major parties were led by empty lightweights who could do nothing first to save and then to reform and reinvigorate...
View ArticleSNP manifesto to ‘rebalance UK’– but what about Scotland?
The SNP manifesto for the UK May General Election released today is described by its evangelist, First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, as ‘full of ideas’ – which it is.However, it provides evidence that the...
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