Wendy in the House
Wendy Alexander is getting ready for her coronation as Scottish Labour leader with a little tour of the country. In other words she is addressing closed meetings of the Labour councillors and their families who make up the activist base of the party these days. At one of those in Edinburgh she predicted a 2010 referendum on independence according to a report in yesterday's Sunday Herald which does not appear to be online.
This implies Labour backing a referendum, which they think the SNP would lose. Interesting times and I bet Alex Salmond has a wry smile on his face.
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:: Monday, April 09, 2007 ::
Politician tells truth shock
With the SNP surging in the polls surprise surprise the rabidly pro-Labour Sunday Mail has come out with a story of a 'sex scandal' involving an SNP MP. So how did he and his party react? Denials? Allegations of MI5 plots? Libel actions? No. He owned up and apologised. The story is already dead in the water. If only certain other politicians had the brains to do the same thing.
τLabels: elections, independence, snp
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:: Monday, February 05, 2007 ::
Liberation
From the Tories, to the Lib-Dems, party of government. Well they actually get fewer votes than the tories but make up the junior partner in the ruling coalition in the Scottish Parliament. With elections approaching the coalition partners have to stop being nice to each other and start with the slagging. But there is an interesting twist. What approach will the Lib-Dems take to the question of a referendum on Scottish independence should the SNP take power? Officially they are against having such a thing and favour a "federal Britain". But an internal poll of party members on their website showed a majority in favour (source: a comment in this article). An SNP-LibDem government? An outside bet but not impossible.
τLabels: independence, libdems, politics, scotland
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