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
By Govan Law Centre Saturday 23rd March 2013 The First Minister, Alex Salmond MSP announced today that all SNP-led local authorities would embrace a ‘no evictions for bedroom tax’ policy, ensuring that where tenants were paying their rent but struggling to cope with the bedroom tax, they would not be evicted by their […]
By no2bedroomtax March 23, 2013 admin Blog SOURCE Local authorities across Scotland controlled by the Scottish National Party (SNP) will block the eviction of social housing tenants unable to pay their rent due to the controversial ‘bedroom tax’, the First Minister has announced. Under the new measures to be introduced by the UK Government from April 1, tenants of working […]
First Minister Alex Salmond has delivered the inaugural Jimmy Reid Foundation annual lecture, entitled “addressing alienation – the opportunity of independence” Speaking in the Daily Record prior to the lecture, Alex Salmond discussed the legacy Jimmy Reid left behind. “As much as I miss Jimmy personally, what I miss more is the power of […]
The SNP Scottish Government IS doing all it can to ‘mitigate’ the effect of the Welfare Reform Act – hence the Welfare Reform (Further Provision) (Scotland) Bill which Alex Salmond was at Holyrood to vote into law on the day of the ConDem cross-party welfare ‘summit’ at Downing Street. Co-incidentally, it was also the day that […]
A lot of people wish that this referendum campaign had never happened. They wish the whole damn thing would go away and be forgotten.But a wish for a return to “normal” is a wish for a Scotland that is already in the past. A No vote will change things just as radically as a Yes […]
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.
"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,"
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
The YES Scotland campaign 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 ...
By Janice Burns 22 Aug 2013 07:18 THE 46-year-old who suffers from scoliosis and arthritis has had court action taken against her to force her to leave her flat. A SEVERELY disabled single mum is to become the first council tenant in Scotland to be evicted because of the bedroom tax. […]
JOAN McAlpine says that the brutal cuts imposed by the coalition Government can only be defended against if Scotland has full control over her own welfare state. 20 Aug 2013 00:01 Iain Duncan Smith THE welfare cuts imposed by Westminster are the political equivalent of kicking an old lady’s zimmer away. […]
Miliband: Labour won’t reverse Osborne’s cuts Tom Gordon Scottish Political Editor Sunday 23 June 2013 ED Miliband yesterday accepted Coalition spending cuts while simultaneously holding out the promise of radical change along the lines of the 1945 Attlee government if Labour is re-elected. The apparently contradictory message emerged […]
Scottish Conservative party conference: David Cameron insists brutal welfare cuts are fair and compassionate THE Tory leader says he is “proud” of the reforms as he speaks to the party faithful at their get-together in Stirling. By David Clegg 8 Jun 2013 09:16 DAVID Cameron yesterday insisted he is “proud” of his brutal cuts […]
Education Secretary Michael Gove has told his Scottish Tory colleagues that next year’s independence referendum will be a “great battle of Britain” and despite the joint campaign with Labour and the Liberal Democrats against independence, Gove said a No vote would represent a Tory victory. #YesFairer @YesScotland STV News Michael Gove addesses Tory Party […]
‘We love you Darling’ Tom Gordon Scottish Political Editor Sunday 9 June 2013 ALISTAIR Darling received a standing ovation from Scottish Conservative activists yesterday – to the SNP’s delight and the former Labour chancellor’s apparent embarrassment. Speaking as the leader of the Better Together campaign, Darling was cheered and […]
By Torcuil Crichton, David Clegg 10 Apr 2013 07:26 THE former PM will receive a full ceremonial funeral with military honours next Wednesday but politicians have branded this the final insult to Scots. THE £10million cost of Margaret Thatcher’s funeral was yesterday slammed as an insult to the 250,000 Scots whose jobs she wiped out. […]
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