Miliband and Labour: still cavilling in the face of the maths of failure
So today national Labour leader, Ed Miliband declared that there will be no coalition with the Scottish Nationalist Party: ‘There will be no SNP ministers in any government I lead’, he declared.This is...
View ArticleSturgeon defence to Dugdale: ‘Everyone’s projections about oil were wrong’
At First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood today, Scottish Labour’s Deputy Leader, Kezia Dugdale, challenged First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon on the SNP Scottish Government’s wildly astray projections on...
View ArticleSalmond tries sleight of hand move on full fiscal autonomy
Hardly – on evidence, the Gold Standard of accuracy on anything fiscal after his contortions on oil and currency during indyref, Alex Salmond seems nevertheless to have tried to conjure the...
View ArticleScotsman reports Sturgeon fast backtrack on Full Fiscal Autonomy
Nicola Sturgeon – having touted the SNP mantra of ‘Full Fiscal Economy’ in what seemed like every time she spoke for the last few weeks, has beaten a fast retreat.The reality exposed by the IFS...
View ArticleFull Fiscal Autonomy a long slow process: Swinney blows indy prospectus apart
First, former First Minister, Alex Salmond said, earlier this week, that under the Smith Commission’s daft ‘no detriment’ provision, England and Wales would have to stump up to make up the shortfall if...
View ArticleLeaders’ debate: no focus like the sight of the finish line
Tonight’s BBC debate in Edinburgh with the Leaders of the four main parties contesting seats in Scotland saw a rip-roaring performance with some significant changes in ranking and...
View ArticleONE [tactical] VOTE for the Union in Scotland and England: JUST DO IT
Across the entire United Kingdom, this is the last battle for the Union.This side of the border, it’s also another battle in the war for Scotland – and a critical one.There are only two votes to...
View ArticleThe dash from full fiscal autonomy and the biteback of the ‘no detriment’...
The SNP Scottish Government has spent the time since indyref 1 repeatedly calling for ‘full fiscal autonomy’. This has virtually been their stated price for staying in the United Kingdom – until...
View ArticleThe SNP and austerity
The SNP’s fiscal contradictions are becoming increasingly funny.First they lead a crusade for ‘full fiscal autonomy’ – a chant they and the infantry were able to learn to sing but had not the remotest...
View ArticleSNP now in Full Fiscal Anomaly and Hosie betrays full fiscal incomprehension
Full Fiscal Autonomy is now a the Full Fiscal Anomaly as it become increasingly impossible to make any sense of the multiple SNP positions on the acronym of the moment, FFA.The SNP manifesto for the...
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