Indyref: Jim Murphy in Oban on Friday in 100 towns in 100 days challenge
Former Scottish Secretary and Shadow Defence Secretary, Glasgow’s Jim Murphy MP, is racing the pro-union message round Scotland, aiming to make 100 towns in 100 days.The Labour MP – for East...
View ArticleWrong issue highlighted as ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ indy campaigns use new North Sea...
Professor Alexander Kemp and Linda Stephen are arguably the most authoritative academic experts on the North Sea oil and gas industry, with a hefty series of research papers to their credit.Professor...
View Article#indyref: 36 answers in 39 steps
Charles Dixon-Spain, one of the three founding energies of For Argyll, the Director whose skills keep it online and whose inventiveness constantly develops its service, recently published an article on...
View ArticleYoung first time voters being surveyed on the experience
16 and 17 year old who were eligible to vote in this year’s referendum on independence and who used their votes are being asked about their experiences to help inform a Parliament Committee’s work.An...
View ArticleCampbell Cameron: come to the Grassroots Skipinnish launch party & ceilidh
The idea of a grassroots cafe came out of the Referendum campaign where many of us thought the energy we saw during the campaign could be harnessed into getting things done in the community.Central to...
View ArticleBrown clueless in trying to swerve constitutional issues
Former Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown, has called for Scotland to ‘stop obsessing about constitutional issues’ and get on with developing the economic performance and the...
View Article‘No’ to indy a relief in North Sea relief from corporation tax
The price of Brent crude fell $67.53 a barrel earlier today, the lowest level since October 2009, before recovering to close at just above $79 a barrel.This situation, predicted in For Argyll’s...
View ArticleSpiritually generous and insightful tribute to Gordon Brown from Jim Murphy
Scottish Labour politician, Jim Murphy, the leading of three candidates for the leadership of the Scottish party which will be resolved in under a fortnight, has today published a tribute to, Gordon...
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Coruisk lumbers into winter action on Gourock-Dunoon passenger route as...
The CalMac ferry MV Coruisk has started its second and presumably last winter emergency service for Argyll Ferries on the Gourock-Dunoon passenger service, unaffected by Gourock harbour improvement...
View ArticleThe General Election merry-go-round with the Union and oil frontline drivers...
The 2015 General Election is going to be one humdinger of a magical mystery tour. No one has any idea actual evidence as to how the losses and gains will play out.The latest flurry of polls of voting...
View ArticleFor Argyll’s tributes to the 2014 trail blazers
So what made 2014 the year of years it has been?The headline tributes of 2014 have to centre on the volcanic independence referendum: to the SNP for shaking up the Union as it has needed to be shaken...
View ArticleToo green to stand – no General Election candidate for Argyll and Bute
Was there ever a party so supine, so voluntarily subservient, so thoughtlessly self mutilating as what one can only call ‘the wilting Greens’?The Scottish Greens were consistent supporters of Scottish...
View ArticleSturgeon hammers nail in coffin of SNP hopes of coalition at Westmister
The possibility of either of the two main UK political parties, the Conservatives and Labour, taking on the SNP as partners in a post General Election coalition was always improbable. It has now become...
View ArticleSyriza, one seat short of overall majority, now talisman for the Scot Nats
Tonight the radical left-wing party, Syriza, in a 95% turnout, has won the election in Greece with 36.5% of the vote – looking like finishing one seat short of an overall majority and possibly...
View ArticleCouncillor Freeman opens up important issues on Castle Toward affair
Intentionally and unintentionally, Lomond North Councillor, George Freeman, has today, 11th February, opened up important issues related, obliquely and centrally, to the Castle Toward affair.Councillor...
View ArticleAshdown salutes Salmond as a hands-on politician
The former Liberal Democrat Leader didn’t quite mean it that way, though, in what he said about the former First Minister”s recently published self-encomium [with a title too long to repeat], which Mr...
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ONE VOTE for democracy and the freedom to be different
In Scotland this one General Election of 2015, 21 days away today, is a two-vote contest about three things:protecting the established internal unity of the little United Kingdom;avoiding the...
View ArticleFull Fiscal Autonomy a long slow process: Swinney blows indy prospectus apart
First, former First Minister, Alex Salmond said, earlier this week, that under the Smith Commission’s daft ‘no detriment’ provision, England and Wales would have to stump up to make up the shortfall if...
View ArticleThe dash from full fiscal autonomy and the biteback of the ‘no detriment’...
The SNP Scottish Government has spent the time since indyref 1 repeatedly calling for ‘full fiscal autonomy’. This has virtually been their stated price for staying in the United Kingdom – until...
View ArticleReader’s take on UK farming today
The 2015 Royal Highland Show, foregrounding the skills and production of Scotland’s agricultural sector, is in its closing day today, 21st June, at Ingliston near Edinburgh. Politicos from all parties...
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