Apr
25
A lovely day yesterday with the family to celebrate Easter sets me up very nicely for the final run in. And despite the polls what I am hearing on the door suggest that it’s still all to play for. On Saturday for example, I spoke with a Scottish Government civil servant who, after 4 years …
Mar
24
George Osborne may have got pass marks for spin today but his budget is a budget for the few and not the many Families may get a small tax break next year – but the 2.5% VAT increase means the average family in Scotland is £450 worse off. The banks will get a tax cut …
Feb
11
The closure of the 200 year old Blindcraft Factory by the SNP/Libdem administration was a sad indictment of their lack of leadership for Scotland’s Capital city. Despite the agreement in November for time to look at alternatives based on the workforce sacrificing 2 days a week pay, the workers had seen so little support from …
Feb
10
There was many scandals’ and injustices perpetrated on the citizens of Edinburgh by the SNP/Libdem administration in the budget meeting today, not least of which was the cutting of three community newspapers for no reason other than the administration don’t like them But the worst was what was not said; because those who wished to …
Feb
10
Budget day today. I hear that there are around 12 delegations booked to speak. Its going to be a long meeting. There will be much talk today about numbers and costs and value and cuts. All of these have their place but a budget is much more than numbers and costs. It has to be …
Feb
07
Do you want teachers to be count lunch money or teaching children? Do you want teachers to be organising trips or preparing children to go on the trips. Do you want filling in forms or filling our children with the knowledge they need to make the best of their time at school Proposals in the …
Feb
02
Three random but yet connected events… The Condems claim is that their tax increases will add to the tax bills of 750,000 higher rate tax payers, implying that they are the ones who can afford to pay. Yet it is those on the lower end of that spectrum that will pay, not the richer ones. …
Jan
20
Today’s post is a straight lift from a Unison press release which I received today and which says much better than I can what is being proposed for support services to get young people back to work. It’s a scandal and I urge you to support the campaign SAVE EDINBURGH’S SERVICES FOR ITS JOBLESS CITIZENS!! …
Jan
14
I am not a big fan of The Scottish Review but every so often it comes up with something interesting; a wee twist in the tale or an unexpected alternative to its usual set of opinions. Kenneth Roy in this article, argues that far from being a failure, with Gordon Brown we would be in …
Jan
12
This story in the Herald about the cost to over 40,000 family’s of around £420 a year because of cuts to the Child care system, (here’s the stats that back it up) is just yet another example of how, after years of being helped by Labour, the Libdems are helping the Tory’s recreate the ideology …
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