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Oot o' the Shortbread Tin: October 2015
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Thursday, 8 October 2015. Today at First Minister's Questions Kezia Dugdale again chose to pursue the matter of Michelle Thomson's business dealings. She said:. Michelle Thomson’s company boasted that the increase in the number of people struggling to pay their mortgage during the recession was, and I quote, ‘a great opportunity’, and that if people were ‘emotionally distant’ they could ‘make a huge profit’. Which paint a very different picture to the one Ms Dugdale was trying to portray. The second thin...
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Oot o' the Shortbread Tin: Kezia's amnesia and Wullie the White Knight
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Thursday, 7 April 2016. Kezia's amnesia and Wullie the White Knight. And so the attempts to smear the SNP go on, most recently with the story that Kezia Dugdale twice sought work experience as a researcher with the SNP. When she was a student, was turned down on both occasions and subsequently joined the Labour party. The rest, as the saying goes, is history. Out of the shortbread tin. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Journey to Yes, N° 9. Come and join us. NEW BLOG: MUNGUIN'S NEW REPUBLIC.
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Oot o' the Shortbread Tin: January 2016
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Thursday, 21 January 2016. The other day there was a report on Len McCluskey's speech to the first policy conference of the Unite union in Scotland. In it he used a phrase which has become common parlance among Scottish Labour politicians, to wit:. The SNP stole most of the radical clothes that historically should have belonged to Labour. Out of the shortbread tin. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Journey to Yes, N° 9. Come and join us. How an early Scottish election can be triggered.
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Oot o' the Shortbread Tin: Marshmallow woman
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Friday, 29 April 2016. STV's political editor Bernard Ponsonby is conducting a series of one-to-one interviews with the leaders of the parties fighting the Scottish General Election. The most excruciating of these is the one with Kezia Dugdale. Compare and contrast with Nicola Sturgeon. Who is generally well-prepared on the topic she's discussing and is therefore almost always able to think on her feet when challenged. Out of the shortbread tin. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Come and join us.
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Oot o' the Shortbread Tin: Shhhhh!
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Monday, 11 April 2016. At the end of last week it was announced that 7,000 pupils in Edinburgh would not be returning to school today, as serious structural defects have been found at Oxgangs Primary School, where a wall collapsed back in January. As the school was built under a PFI deal. All other schools built under similar arrangements have now been closed until safety checks can be carried out. Well, Edinburgh Council was Labour-controlled. The silence is deafening. Has Willie Rennie fired off ye...
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Oot o' the Shortbread Tin: Don't wanna choose, I want them both
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Monday, 11 July 2016. Don't wanna choose, I want them both. Today The Guardian carries an interview with Kezia Dugdale. In which she outlines her current thinking on the state of UK politics. The interviewer attended a speech Ms Dugdale was giving on the lessons of the EU referendum, of which he says. That they can't negotiate with Scotland while it remains a member of the UK and that if it remains in the UK it will be out of the EU along with the other home nations after the post-Article 50 negotiations...
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Oot o' the Shortbread Tin: December 2015
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Wednesday, 16 December 2015. Recently the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. OECD) carried out a review of the Scottish education system. The report was largely positive and highlighted some improvements that have been made as well as showing some areas that still need work. On balance, though, it shows that education in Scotland is in a reasonably good position when compared with other countries. The National reported on the review. Out of the shortbread tin. Monday, 7 December 2015.
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Oot o' the Shortbread Tin: Private dancer
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Saturday, 30 April 2016. Today the Guardian carries this video of Kezia Dugdale being interviewed by Owen Jones. In it they discuss Labour's toxicity in Scotland, what it's like to be LGBT in Scotland and the perceived role of Brian Soutar in forming SNP policy. Labour supporters will, no doubt, point out that they have not been in government in Holyrood for the past nine years, ignoring the fact that they still control the majority of local councils and therefore local spending and policy decisions.
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Oot o' the Shortbread Tin: Devo-not-quite-max
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Monday, 9 May 2016. The answer appears to be to become the party of the centre-left that supports full federalism within the UK. The party of Devo-max. Devo-max is generally agreed to mean that the Scottish parliament has all powers except for those over defence and foreign affairs and retains all money raised in Scotland, paying an agreed contribution towards defence and foreign affairs. Dear god, it's the Smith Commission all over again. Despite the fact that federalism/Devo-max has a generally acc...
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Oot o' the Shortbread Tin: February 2016
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Monday, 15 February 2016. In today's Daily Record there's an opinion piece by Kezia Dugdale. In which she waxes lyrical about how the new powers coming to Scotland will enable a Labour government in Scotland to. Be even bolder in the decisions we make to stop the cuts in Scotland and give young people a chance to get on in life. Let trumpets sound and rejoicing begin! It's a piece filled with deep irony. For example. Surely the amazing opportunity was for Scotland to have voted for independence, no?
