Brown and Darling meeting Bank of England as RBS and HBOS lead shares plunge...
The Prime Minister, the Chancellor, the Governor of the Bank of England and the Chair of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) went into what can only be described as an emergency meeting at 5.00pm...
View ArticleUK bail-out deal announced – and FTSE 100 drops sharply
The actions just announced by Chancellor, Alastair Darling, include:Response to the liquidity problem – making available £200 billion from the Bank of England for immediate short term borrowing by...
View ArticleLandsbanki defaults but Chancellor says UK will guarantee Icesave Internet...
BREAKING NEWS: The Iceland Government has declared Landsbanki – taken into public ownership yesterday – insolvent. It has also declared inoperable the guarantee on Landsbanki subsidiary Icesave’s...
View ArticleThe UK Government is burying bad news by making Sir Fred’s pension the...
The row over Sir Fred Goodwin’s pension is the distraction the UK Government’s spin doctors literally ordered in the leaks they engineered yesterday. The real story is not Sir Fred’s £693 THOUSAND...
View ArticleDonors, public money and funding the independence referendum campaigns
Alastair Darling, frontman for the supposedly pro-union campaign that is, in every way, better described as the ‘No’ campaign, has been vociferous in recent days on the subject of the funding of the...
View ArticleSalmond jibs at Darling ‘dictator’ jibe – as government allows 5 local &...
And, yes, this involves NHS Highland and therefore children in Argyll and Bute.In an ironic coincidence, today’s major newspapers trumpet the First Minister’s irritation at Alastair Darling’s branding...
View ArticleDarling-Salmond debate may be a surprise
Assuming that it actually happens, the debate between Alex Salmond for the pro-independence side and Alastair Darling for the pro-union side has the capacity to deliver a surprise.The popular...
View ArticleDarling launching pro-union Tourism Together on Loch Lomond this morning
Speaking at the launch of Tourism Together on a boat in Loch Lomond this morning, the Chair of the pro-union campaign, former Chancellor Alistair Darling, is saying that the campaign to keep Scotland...
View ArticleIndy v the union: the two hour debate Salmond can ‘win’ but cannot win
The spirit does sink at the prospect of two hours of this on the near horizon but, after the release of the Commonwealth Games, we now have to gird up for the sheer enormity of the decision we have to...
View ArticleThe debate: Darling’s finest moment –‘Cometh the hour, cometh the man’
Tonight’s STV debate between pro-independence Alex Salmond and pro-union Alastair Darling was unexpectedly riveting – because Alastair Darling proved a complete surprise. The bookies will have lost a...
View ArticleAndrew Argyle: Yes campaign impaled on currency
In Tuesday evening’s [5th August] debate with Alasdair Darling, Alex Salmond railed against food banks in Scotland. He denounced Westminster austerity measures, intimating that John Swinney has...
View ArticleSalmond’s continuing threat to default on share of national debt raises clean...
[Updated] In his defiant efforts to recover the substantial ground lost to Alastair Darling – the clear if unexpected winner of Tuesday’s debate [5th August] with the First Minister on the stability of...
View ArticlePolitical whodunnit with reverberations
Who advocated that the SNP should bin its obsession with independence and go for a ‘new Union’ with England?Who wanted to see the SNP dump social democracy; decimate the welfare state; drop taxes by...
View ArticlePorkie from Salmond on fiscal policy as Darling bests him again in Reporting...
The female is indeed deadlier than the male when it comes to Scottish television interviewers.Jackie Bird [in to bat first, with Alex Salmond yesterday evening] and Sally Magnusson [with Alastair...
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Cybernats savage Paul MacCartney for ‘Let’s stay together’ plea
[Photo update below] Given the way things are here, it was inevitable. Like JK Rowling before him, the Cybernats and IndyTrolls have lit upon musician and composer, Paul McCartney, dumping vitriolic...
View ArticleScottish Labour MPs – not absent SNP MPs – do the heavy lifting on getting...
Only two out of six SNP MPs – but all 40 Scottish Labour MPs [including former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former Chancellor Alastair Darling] – were in the voting lobby of the House of Commons...
View ArticleThe Union, the young, reform and the pound are the gold in the embers of indy
[Revised] Scotland has voted decisively by over 55% to under 45% that its best interests are served by membership of the United Kingdom. Argyll and Bute voted for this by 58.5% to 41.5%.The...
View ArticleJaw-dropping background to Gordon Brown’s intervention in saving the Union –...
All that was visible from the public side of things in the latter part – the emergency part – of the campaign to save the Union was that there was a point where former Prime Minister and Chancellor,...
View ArticleSituation analysis 2: Scotland now – the counter attack
Union is a political philosophy. It is one whose value Scotland understands and with which, in its relative support for membership of the EU, it appears comfortable.Scotland is, however,...
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BBC ALBA profiles Brian Wilson
Every word of ‘West Highland Free Press’ describes Dunoon’s Brian Wilson, music promoter, journalist, Labour politician, UK government minister, forceful campaigner in pressing the case for green...
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