Labour scored its best ever result in a Scottish by-election in living memory - seeing an increase in our share of the vote and comprehensively beating the SNP.

Labour beat the SNP with a majoity of 8,111 - and scoring an incredible 59.4% of the vote. The last time a party breached the 60% mark in a by-election was twenty-seven years ago.

The new… Continue

First Minister Alex Salmond knows how to spend money in a good cause ... unfortunately for the rest of us, the good cause is Alex Salmond himself!

This is the man who is still to explain how he managed to spend £800 on food in London when he spent most of that time in Holyrood and running (I say running - what actualIy mean in waddling) around… Continue

Alex Salmond's SNP Government is losing the battle on drugs as budgets are cut and drug offences rise.

The SNP promised to increase the Drug Misuse Budget by 20%, but in the SNP's 2010/11 budget it's actually being cut by £200,000! The Community Justice Services budget, which pays for the specialised Drug Courts, is being cut by £700,000… Continue

It would seem that the destruction of the whole Scottish economy is a worthy price Scots should pay for the SNP's dream of independence.

One of 'King Alex's' royal courtiers has admitted that an Independent Scotland would have let HBoS and RBS banks crash and the UK Labour government was wrong to save them!

This astonishing adm… Continue

Labour trounced the SNP in a local by-election - winning easily on the first round, with in excess of 50 per cent of the vote.

Labour candidate Moira Pirie increased the Labour vote from 2007 and beat the SNP candidate by 52% - 36%. The by-election took place in East Ayrshire council following the sad death of an independent councillor.

The gain now makes Labour the largest group on the council, where the administration is currently held by the SNP.

New councillor Moir… Continue