So it looks like Plan B is to be debated at conference and the party will have a chance to decide if this is indeed…
THE CRISIS IN UNIONISM
What has happened to unionism? 6 years after a decisive win in the first independence referendum its prospects have never been so grim and its…
THE PEOPLE’S ACTION ON SECTION 30
Dear Martin Thank you very much for your email asking me and my fellow MPs to contribute to your fundraiser. Where I want to wish…
A ROUTE MAP TO INDEPENDENCE
Who would have thought that five and a half years after losing a referendum on independence support is now edging over 50% and becoming a…
PLAN B. PANACEA OR ANOTHER DEAD END?
So plan B is back. This time with an opinion poll which seems to suggest it comes with majority public support. Always there as a…
A NEW INDEPENDENCE PARTY – IT’S NOT WORTH THE RISK.
There has been a bit of talk about the formation of a new independence party on social media. People frustrated in what they see as…
WITHOUT THEIR ‘NO TO INDYREF2’ IT COULD BE A LONG, HARD ELECTION FOR THE TORIES
I admit it (sad as it may seem) I’m a keen student of the Scottish Conservatives. Having had them as my main and only credible…
AN ‘ADVISORY’ REFERENDUM IS NOT CONSEQUENCE FREE
What a few months it has been for the independence movement. After the SNP’s incredible victory in December we have seen the first clear example…
THE SCOTTISH AFFAIRS COMMITTEE HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED
When I was first elected in 2001 as part of a group of five SNP MPs I never thought it would be possible for an…
THE ‘PEOPLE’S VOTE’. A CAMPAIGN DOOMED TO FAIL.
There has surely never been a campaign so inept and ineffective as the campaign for a ‘People’s Vote’. Outplayed and outsmarted at every turn it…