Category Archives: Press Release

Remembrance Day – 17 November 2022

  

The Remembrance Day Event I attended seemed busier this year, perhaps due to the unseasonal warmth, as opposed to some bitter days in years past. As ever, it was evocative and poignant, as poems were read and “The flo’ers o’ the forest” was played. Humbling and a privilege to attend. But this year I’d recently watched the Netflix remake of… Read more »

TIME TO ABANDON THE SINKING SHIP OF ‘BANKRUPT BRITAIN’ SAYS MACASKILL

  

Reacting to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement Kenny MacAskill MP said: “The poor are paying the price for the follies of Tory elites.  The offerings announced today remain inadequate to address the harm already done with much worse to come. “The failure to fully compensate families facing soaring energy prices is a shameful betrayal of fuel poor Scots. When Scotland has abundant energy… Read more »

East Lothian Courier – 17 November 2022

  

As folk struggle to heat their homes I thought I’d heard all the absurdities of an Energy Rich Scotland yet Fuel Poor Scots until I received an e mail from a sailor being made redundant. His tale encapsulates the absurdity of what’s happening to our energy resource and how neither in East Lothian nor in Scotland are we getting the… Read more »

MACASKILL EXPOSES SACKING OF OFFSHORE WORKERS AND CALLS FOR HOME OFFICE TO TAKE URGENT ACTION

  

ALBA Depute Leader Kenny MacAskill MP has today (Thursday) published a paper which exposes the sacking of workers in the offshore wind sector, and their replacement with cheap foreign labour which has been facilitated by the Home Office’s extension of the Offshore wind workers Immigration Rules concession 2017.  Mr MacAskill has revealed that as a result of the immigration rules concession extension at… Read more »

Offshore Exploitation – 17 November 2022

  

Having written extensively about the absurdity of Energy Rich Scotland yet Fuel Poor Scots, I thought I’d seen it all. But an e mail in from a concerned Scottish worker showed that not only are we losing out on the exploration of our huge natural asset, but our workers are being exploited. This sorry tale encapsulates the absurdity of giving… Read more »

Fireworks Riots – 10 November 2022

  

As a Defence Agent I appeared in cases where there had been considerable disorder. Sometimes in licensed premises, other times in the street or outside football stadia. Mobbing and rioting was the charge, for that’s what it was. Unpleasant and unacceptable but to be fair it was soon brought under control and the perpetrators dealt with severely.   None of… Read more »

The Obvious Solution – 10 November 2022

  

The Brexit delusion had been exposed long before the Truss tanking and was encapsulated by the former Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney’s, comment that “in 2016 the British economy was 90% the size of Germany’s. Now it is less than 70%.” What an indictment of the folly, but what a cost we’re paying.   There’s an obvious solution and… Read more »

East Lothian Courier – 10 November 2022

  

It was the economy that dominated last week. Understandable as interest rates rose yet again and the Bank of England predicted recession until the end of 2024. The economy has been tanked by the Tories with even Rishi Sunak, the latest iteration as Prime Minister, acknowledging Kwarteng’s budget catastrophe. But the rot had set in before with the hard Brexit,… Read more »

Wealth Taxes – 3 November 2022

  

“It’s the poor that gets the blame, it’s the rich that get the pleasure” were lines from an old Music Hall song but still ring true today. It’s why a wealth tax and higher taxes on the wealthy are long overdue. I’ll not hold my breath for them with a Prime Minister who’s the richest man in Parliament and a… Read more »

Gender Reform Splits – 3 November 2022

  

Pride comes before a fall and the rebellion that Nicola Sturgeon faced within her ranks has been a long time coming. Turning a deaf ear to concerns within the wider party, let alone parliamentary rank, she precipitated the largest parliamentary revolt in the SNPs tenure in office. You’d have thought significant defections in recent years, added to siren voices from… Read more »