If you have been reading the papers over the last few days it won't have escaped your notice that the battlelines appear to have been drawn over the debate for Scottish Independence.
In one corner Alex Salmond who has decided that the referendum will be held in the autumn of 2014 with three questions on the ballot paper.
In the other stands David Cameron and the rest of the Westminster machine which is of course firmly on the side of the maintenance of the union and wants a vote sooner rather than later believing that all this speculation is damaging the economy.
Salmond upped the anti so to speak on the Today programme this morning announcing that the referendum on Scottish independence has to "made in Scotland and decided by the Scottish people"
However those on this side of the border believe that he lacks the legal authority even to call a vote with Salmond retorting that the coalition has no mandate to intervene.
Salmond will be believing that any intervention from Westminster will play into his hands with the Scottish electorate.
Now the Prime Minister has announced that he will be meeting with the first minister in due course to discuss the controversial plans.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Sunday, 2 October 2011
Salmond pays tribute to UK's worst maritime disaster
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has paid tribute to the 4,000 people who lost their lives in the worst single loss of life for UK forces during the Second World War and the UK's worst maritime disaster.
Seventy one years after the Clyde-built troopship HMT Lancastria was bombed and sunk off the coast of France, the First Minister unveiled a memorial in the grounds of the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank to those who died and declared it a place of pilgrimage for people to remember the victims and survivors of the disaster.
The Lancastria was built on the Clyde in 1922 and in March 1940 she was requisitioned as a troopship, painted battleship grey and sent to deploy British troops to Norway.
Three months later, the Lancastria came under attack from enemy aircraft. She received three direct hits from a German Junkers 88 bomber and within 20 minutes, the 16,243-ton luxury liner sank, taking with her an estimated 4,000 victims. The sinking claimed more victims than that of the Titanic and Lusitania combined.
Seventy one years after the Clyde-built troopship HMT Lancastria was bombed and sunk off the coast of France, the First Minister unveiled a memorial in the grounds of the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank to those who died and declared it a place of pilgrimage for people to remember the victims and survivors of the disaster.
The Lancastria was built on the Clyde in 1922 and in March 1940 she was requisitioned as a troopship, painted battleship grey and sent to deploy British troops to Norway.
Three months later, the Lancastria came under attack from enemy aircraft. She received three direct hits from a German Junkers 88 bomber and within 20 minutes, the 16,243-ton luxury liner sank, taking with her an estimated 4,000 victims. The sinking claimed more victims than that of the Titanic and Lusitania combined.
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Salmon accused over mark of respect move
The deaths of 16 people on board the helicopter that crashed in the North Sea yesterday was a tragedy.
Sometimes we forget the daily dangers that people risk on the North Sea helping to bring ashore gas and oil.
It now appears that the Scottish First minister has been accused of trying to make political capital out of the situation
According to the Times
Foulkes went onto say that Salmon
Sometimes we forget the daily dangers that people risk on the North Sea helping to bring ashore gas and oil.
It now appears that the Scottish First minister has been accused of trying to make political capital out of the situation
According to the Times
a Labour MSP,Lord Foulkes accused Alex Salmond, the First Minister, of using the North Sea helicopter crash for political purposes by pressing for normal business at the Scottish Parliament to be suspended as a mark of respect.
Foulkes went onto say that Salmon
was behaving as a “quasi-head of State”.“The whole purpose of Parliament is to hold the government to account,My goodness, Westminster even sat through the worst days of World War Two and he wants a suspension of normal business to make himself look more important.
Friday, 25 July 2008
Difficult times * 9
Just listening to the World at One.Some of the highlights following last night' defeat include Alex Salmond caling Labour stone age politicians in a computer age and saying that they no longer have activists but various hangers on.
Alistair Darling is wheeled out as the senior spokesman continuing the hype bole that the reason is the economy and that the party needs to do everything that it can to help the public face the economic hardships ahead.
Graham Stringer hints that a leadership election should now take place and urges the men in grey suits to talk to the PM and explain that the party needs a change of policies and that may mean a change of leader.
Lord Darzi meanwhile be lives that the parliamentary party has no stomach for a leadership contest but despite that Brown should leave on his own accord
Most worryingly though,Gordon Brown's appearance in front of the BBC cameras simply spent nearly three minutes repeating the phrases that he was guiding us through the tough times,he was here for the duration,that the country was best placed.Remarkably he managed to use the phrase "difficult times" 9 times
Alistair Darling is wheeled out as the senior spokesman continuing the hype bole that the reason is the economy and that the party needs to do everything that it can to help the public face the economic hardships ahead.
Graham Stringer hints that a leadership election should now take place and urges the men in grey suits to talk to the PM and explain that the party needs a change of policies and that may mean a change of leader.
Lord Darzi meanwhile be lives that the parliamentary party has no stomach for a leadership contest but despite that Brown should leave on his own accord
Most worryingly though,Gordon Brown's appearance in front of the BBC cameras simply spent nearly three minutes repeating the phrases that he was guiding us through the tough times,he was here for the duration,that the country was best placed.Remarkably he managed to use the phrase "difficult times" 9 times
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