Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
First Minister tells SNP Conference that Westminster is humiliating disabled people and that it is a disgrace that a UN Representative was forced to comment on an injustice in 21st Century Scotland … Continue reading“We seek a country where we make work pay but not by humiliating those with disabilities” ~ Alex Salmond’s conference speech
By Govan Law Centre Saturday 23rd March 2013 The First Minister, Alex Salmond MSP announced today that
By no2bedroomtax March 23, 2013 admin Blog SOURCE Local authorities across Scotland controlled by the Scottish National Party (SNP) will block the eviction of
First Minister Alex Salmond has delivered the inaugural Jimmy Reid Foundation annual lecture, entitled “addressing alienation – the opportunity
The SNP Scottish Government IS doing all it can to ‘mitigate’ the effect of the Welfare Reform Act – hence
A lot of people wish that this referendum campaign had never happened. They wish the whole damn thing would go
Continue readingGo ahead, Scotland: Vote NO to independence and sign your own death warrant
ALEX Salmond is to banish the bedroom tax from Scotland: The Scottish Government have agreed to cover the full cost of housing benefit cuts for Scots hammered by the vicious Con-Dem policy. … Continue readingBedroom tax axed in Scotland: Holyrood rivals back SNP Government’s £15m plan to banish hated spare-room policy
“This is the day, our day, Scotland’s day. The day that we can cradle in our arms Scotland’s future and hear the infant cries of a new country,” … Continue readingScotland faces “severest cuts in political history, over and above the retrenchment of the last few years” if it votes for the status quo
My name is Cindie Reiter, I’m one of those “New Scots” you hear people talking about from time to time, and I’m going to vote Yes in 2014. … Continue readingThe Long Journey to Yes
The vulnerable and disabled are paying the price of things as they are now. A No vote will guarantee that that will continue as the welfare state will be dismantled in Scotland ~ Nicola Sturgeon tells conference … Continue reading“Do not ever let anyone pull the wool over your eyes about the consequences of a No vote: Scotland’s social security system will be dismantled.”
The YES Scotland campaign can turn the debate around by focusing on the dismantling of the welfare state south of the border … Continue readingHow the SNP can still win the vote for an independent Scotland: The Yes camp can turn the debate around by focusing on the dismantling of the welfare state south of the border
The current union is in trouble. Perhaps a way forward would be for the United Kingdom to re-organise … … Continue readingHow to build a successful United Kingdom
By Janice Burns 22 Aug 2013 07:18 THE 46-year-old who suffers from scoliosis and arthritis has had court action
JOAN McAlpine says that the brutal cuts imposed by the coalition Government can only be defended against if Scotland
Miliband: Labour won’t reverse Osborne’s cuts Tom Gordon Scottish Political Editor Sunday 23 June 2013
Scottish Conservative party conference: David Cameron insists brutal welfare cuts are fair and compassionate THE Tory leader says
Education Secretary Michael Gove has told his Scottish Tory colleagues that next year’s independence referendum will be a “great
Continue readingVote No to independence and grant the Tories another victory
‘We love you Darling’ Tom Gordon Scottish Political Editor Sunday 9 June 2013 ALISTAIR Darling
By Torcuil Crichton, David Clegg 10 Apr 2013 07:26 THE former PM will receive a full ceremonial funeral with military honours