The SNP team at the Rutherglen and Hamilton West count
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Independence and the Cost of Westminster Crisis

This Sunday SNP delegates will gather in Aberdeen to decide our strategy for the next Westminster election. We meet after a disastrous result at the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election, and I expect there will be some lively conversations! Social media has been awash with speculation about why the SNP lost so badly, but I […]

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Holyrude Ungagged – Season 6 Ep7

Host Brian Findlay @WeeSociologist with Kat Cary @Kat_Cary and Connor Beaton @cdbeaton. This week’s topic starters:- 1. Rutherglen & HW by-election, 2. Red Cross warns 28-day ‘move-on’ process is not enough time for asylum seekers to find new accommodation, 3. Not all Police Scotland officers have vetting files, 4. Unhinged content from the Tory Party […]

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Holyrude Ungagged – Season 6 – Ep4

Neil Anderson @BikerNeil hosts with Val Waldron @scribblingval and Brian Finlay @WeeSociologist. This week’s topic starters; 1) Indy Ref 9th Anniversary & SNP conf motion, 2) Highest Scottish population ‘ever’! And Scots views on immigration, 3) Fergus Ewing MSP & SNP/SGP BHA – acronym heaven 🙂 4) Helix Park – Falkirk 10th Anniversary – Kelpies […]

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DON’T VOTE LABOUR

Printed by Merchant City Print, Glasgow Promoted by D. McClemont, 58, G72 9SP Rutherglen and Hamilton West voter David McClemont seriously considered voting for the Labour Party until Starmer and Sarwar hijacked the party’s climb back from the depths that Blair and Brown’s New Labour had dragged it… As a lifelong supporter of Scottish independence, […]

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Autoimmunity Within the Independence Movement

The obstacles to our independence are not all about media-led rabid unionism, or floating voters. We have a problem within the movement, something really toxic. It resembles a kind of auto-immune disease, a drive to eat away at the host and make barren the soil it depends on; the movement itself.  The dreaded anniversary of […]