Added by DaveMeechan on November 21, 2009 at 8:25pm —
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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.
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Added by DaveMeechan on November 14, 2009 at 10:58pm —
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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…
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Added by DaveMeechan on November 11, 2009 at 8:30am —
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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…
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Added by DaveMeechan on October 15, 2009 at 11:21am —
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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…
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Added by DaveMeechan on October 14, 2009 at 11:00am —
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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…
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Added by DaveMeechan on October 7, 2009 at 11:32am —
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Secret SNP Government plans to tax cyclists have been exposed! SNP Transport Minister, Stewart Stev…
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Added by DaveMeechan on September 13, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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Labour delivered the Scottish Parliament for the people of Scotland. For the first eight years, we formed the government.
Now we are in opposition, we know that
the SNP are just not doing enough to help people through these difficult times. Even from opposition we have…
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Added by DaveMeechan on September 8, 2009 at 7:32pm —
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Added by DaveMeechan on September 7, 2009 at 8:52pm —
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Des Browne MP has called on the Scottish Government to back Scottish Labour’s ‘Carry a knife – go to jail’ proposals in the Scottish Parliament. Des said: “34 teenagers died as a result of knife attacks last year.
In 2008, in Strathclyde alone, 73 murders were committed and 4…
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Added by DaveMeechan on September 1, 2009 at 2:16pm —
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SNP Depute First Minister and Health Secretary, Nicola Sturgeon has tried to spin her way out of the fact that
affordable social housebuild has fallen on her watch!
Scottish Labour’s Cathy Jamieson has accused the Scottish Government of ‘spinning out of control’. Nicola Sturgeon ha…
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Added by DaveMeechan on August 30, 2009 at 9:07pm —
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The SNP are opposing the Equality Bill currently going through Parliament because deputy Leader and Deputy First Minister
Nicola Sturgeon has decreed that Scotland doesn't need that part of the Bill, termed the 'socio-economic duty' in Parliamentary parlance,…
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Added by DaveMeechan on August 22, 2009 at 10:28am —
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Poster boy of the Tory right, and Freedom Association (FA…
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Added by DaveMeechan on August 17, 2009 at 3:30pm —
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Tory Shadow Commons Leader, Alan Duncan, believes the public treat MPs [disgracefully] and pay them only
'rations'. In a mega-gaffe slap-to-the-public's-face, Duncan said:
"No-one who has done anything in the outside world, or is capable of doing such a thing, will…
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Added by DaveMeechan on August 13, 2009 at 11:46am —
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Alex Salmond reverted to SNP default position when challenged over his refusal to support a campaign specifically aimed at discouraging young people from joyriding,
'Live Now Drive Later', by blaming someone else!
Councillor James Alexander had asked the SNP Firs…
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Added by DaveMeechan on August 3, 2009 at 2:42pm —
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Des has challenged SNP Health Secretary, Nicola Sturgeon, to come clean over her and her department's failure to deliver on eradication of mixed sex wards!
After receiving a complaint from an angry and distressed female constituent who had found herself admitted to…
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Added by DaveMeechan on July 31, 2009 at 10:39am —
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Scottish schools have lost 10…
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Added by DaveMeechan on July 27, 2009 at 3:51pm —
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Failing SNP Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill (above) is content to release hundreds of prisoners from Scottish prisons back into the communities blighted by their criminal activities, because there isn't enough space for them eve…
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Added by DaveMeechan on July 27, 2009 at 3:00pm —
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As websites crashed from sheer numbers and the humid Kilmarnock air reverberated with the sounds of bagpipes, whistles, campaign songs, and twenty thousand footfalls a second
Des along with the Scottish First Minister and other local and national politicians led the march, as he h…
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Added by DaveMeechan on July 27, 2009 at 12:26pm —
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Dr Liam Fox, a GP by profession and present Shadow Tory Defence Secretary, in an interview on the Politics Show
refused to rule out defence cuts by any future Tory government! Again when pressed, he indicated that if British Commanders in Afghanistan requested more troops…
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Added by DaveMeechan on July 24, 2009 at 11:04am —
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