The SNP leader has called for consensus, but is already creating more division, says TERRY MURDEN Let’s face it, Scotland doesn’t do success with any great enthusiasm. Just ask Reform leader Malcolm Offord about the reception he received to his now infamous ‘six homes, five cars and six boats’ statement on his personal wealth. Creating […]
Scottish Independence
Scotland dancing to Westminster’s tune
Labour is beginning to assert its policy agenda and is leaving Scotland at risk of playing catch-up, writes TERRY MURDEN On social media they call it colonisation. Creeping control of everything Scottish by the English establishment. A King Edward’s army for the 21st century ‘stealing’ the oil, gas and renewable energy from the earth and […]
Build a nation on wealth, not cheap insults
Choose your costume and follow the leader – the Coronation and the Glasgow marchers Of course Scotland could become an independent nation, but it would be a huge and costly gamble, and please spare us grievance and mean-spirited slogans, writes TERRY MURDEN The message from an estimated 20,000 who snubbed the Coronation and marched through […]
Tory bashing is wrong route to independence
AS I SEE IT: TERRY MURDEN says leaving the UK must be based on deeper reasons than short-term economic difficulties Humza Yousaf has been in Arbroath making his own declaration of independence. The SNP leadership contender used a campaign speech not only to hark back to that historic statement, but to regurgitate his party’s focus […]
Independence claims now at breaking point
AS I SEE IT: TERRY MURDEN says the SNP’s claims that constitutional change is the solution to everything are stretching credibility Those terrible people in Westminster have been at it again, this time denying Scotland nearly £3 billion a year because of the Tory government’s failure to close legal loopholes and adequately collect taxes. It’s […]