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About The Scots Gazette. Author Archive Andrew Page. Independence Referendum announced – what Lib Dems should do next. January 14, 2012. This week Alex Salmond signalled his intention to give Scots the chance to vote on independence in Autumn 2014. This shouldn’t surprise anyone. What it means in practice is that we will have to wait almost three years which is positive in the sense that it allows more than sufficient time for a reasonable debate, [.]. Comments { 0 }. December 2, 2011. Comments { 0 }.

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Independence Referendum announced – what Lib Dems should do next | Scots Gazette

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About The Scots Gazette. Independence Referendum announced – what Lib Dems should do next. January 14, 2012. This week Alex Salmond signalled his intention to give Scots the chance to vote on independence in Autumn 2014. This shouldn’t surprise anyone. What it means in practice is that we will have to wait almost three years which is positive in the sense that it allows more than sufficient time for a reasonable debate, but is an unusually long time in which to plan and fight a campaign. Obvious one, isn...

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Gavin Hamilton | Scots Gazette

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About The Scots Gazette. Gavin Hamilton has been a Liberal and Liberal Democrat activist for nearly 30 years both north and south of the border. A former party agent, Gavin is now a LibDem blogger. After studying modern history he has pursued a career in financial services marketing and internal communications. Author Archive Gavin Hamilton. Europe – 10 things I think happened last week. December 12, 2011. Comments { 0 }. Edinburgh, London, Paris, Munich – everyone talk about – the Euro! December 6, 2011.

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The view from the hills: July 2013

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The view from the hills. Of life, politics and other stuff. Friday, 19 July 2013. I originally posted this in 2011 (from a British perspective). Tonight, as Detroit files for bankruptcy it seems worth revisiting it. At a time where public sector pensions have been at the heart of our national debate its worth thinking about what happened in the United States. Why? Because expensive and outdated pension schemes have destroyed the auto manufacturing industry in Detroit and with it the city! Detroit and the...

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The view from the hills: June 2014

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The view from the hills. Of life, politics and other stuff. Friday, 20 June 2014. The identity and the future of the nation. Last night I watched Prof Tom Devine, one of Scotland's greatest living historians, on TV. I like Tom Devine and I like what he has to say. He has as fine an understanding of Scotland and what it is to be Scottish as anyone. Talking about the Independence Referendum we take part in, in three month's time he said, "This is about the identity and the future of the nation". Still rele...

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The view from the hills: April 2012

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The view from the hills. Of life, politics and other stuff. Monday, 9 April 2012. Public sector pensions is not the issue! All power to Steve Webb with his work on looking for alternative pension methods for British workers in the years to come. This is the real issue, not public sector pensions. Final salary pensions are dead. They have been for over a decade now. The public sector unions are either being King Canute like or don't understand the economics of providing pensions - or both! Where the union...

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The view from the hills: The SNP's double paradox

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The view from the hills. Of life, politics and other stuff. Tuesday, 7 July 2015. The SNP's double paradox. It has been interesting to see those celebrating the Greek vote on their financial crisis are a mixture of various nationalists, and the hard left and Greens. This highlights a paradox as far as the SNP are concerned. The SNP are not a hard left party and their anti-austerity line has been no different than social democrats'. In fact their anti-austerity line has been more talk than action. Cllr Fr...

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The view from the hills: April 2013

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The view from the hills. Of life, politics and other stuff. Sunday, 21 April 2013. So Scotland, which way shall we go? Straight ahead carrying on much as we are now, or off one way to independence or another to constitutional change but within the UK? This is a clever conceit and one that deserves serious consideration. It is all the more clever because it is impossible to prove or disprove. In that sense I need to go with my gut here. However, I think it is important to test and challenge th...Given the...