Last week a new low was reached in the debate about illegal immigration. In its wisdom, the UK Government decided that it would tackle the…
INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM
There is one word that you won’t find in the independence debate and that is the word ‘freedom’. You will also not find our independence…
It’s Parliamentary recess not a holiday.
Serving the people in my large rural constituency. Pete Wishart MP – SURGERY DATES The Scottish National Party’s Mr Pete Wishart will be holding advice…
Music and Government Policy. My speech at the BASCA AGM
Thank you very much for that kind introduction and it is a real pleasure to join BASCA at its Annual General Meeting. You know, people…
INDEPENDENCE & SCOTTISHNESS
Where the independence debate will mainly be about the day to day concerns such as will we be better off and what will happen to…
Remembering Iraq
Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire) (SNP):It is a pleasure to follow the hon. and gallant Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood). He is of…
THE NEXT GOVERNMENT YOU DIDN’T VOTE FOR?
If you don’t like this Government you didn’t vote for, then brace yourself for the possible next one. If you think that the Tories governing…
SCOTLAND AND FRUITCAKE. MY SPEECH ON THE UK’S EXIT FROM EUROPE
Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire) (SNP): In the few minutes available to me, I want to confine my remarks to amendment (b). When the…
SCOTLAND AND CATALONIA
There’s a little church and it’s in one of Barcelona’s many pretty little squares. Like many historic building in central Barcelona the walls are pock-marked…
THE FABLE OF THE FEEBLE FIFTY
“Never was so little achieved by so many in defence of so few” – the motto of the fabled “Feeble Fifty”. The fearless cadre of…