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UK government spent 13 times more bombing Libya than securing peace

‘UK Govt priorities were wrong over Libya’ Scottish National Party | July 26, 2015 The UK government spent 13 times more bombing Libya than securing peace in the years afterwards, it has been revealed. The House of Commons library has released information which shows the UK government spent around £320 million in a bombing campaign […]

‘Broadest spying powers imaginable’: SNP MPs plan to block Tory Snoopers’ Charter

RT | May 12, 2015 Scottish Nationalists are hoping to use their new-found parliamentary leverage to block controversial Tory plans to introduce legislation that would see the further erosion of privacy rights across the UK. As the first days of parliament get under way, Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) MPs are planning to rail against Tory […]

An Election Fit for a Lunatic Asylum

After the election every Westminster politician will have to come and face the reality of the electorate’s judgment.  There is no disrespect or disgrace in any politician coming to terms with the democratically expressed position of the electorate.  All politicians, those of us who are lucky enough to be elected, chosen by the people, will try to do their best as they see it in the interests of the people who elected them.
— Alex Salmond, ex-First Minister of Scottish Parliament, now running for a seat in Westminster

The New Hillary

By Andrew Levine | CounterPunch | April 24, 2015 In the years before he ran for President in 1968, Richard Nixon’s publicists promoted a New Nixon. It was the same old Tricky Dicky with the rough edges smoothed away. The old Nixon lost the 1960 presidential election to John Kennedy in 1960; then Pat Brown […]

Breakaway SNP Strikes Fear into Westminster Parties

The SNP (Scottish National Party), under feisty new leader Nicola Sturgeon, is scaring the daylights out of Labour and Conservatives with the prospect of a strong squad of MPs marching south headed by fearsome former leader and political bruiser Alex Salmond.
Cameron or Miliband for prime minister – warmongering toff or socialist nonentity? And with whose coalition help? That’s the bleak choice for British voters.

Scottish First Minister leads united call for Iraq war report disclosure

RT | January 19, 2015 Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon has called for a united political movement to demand the immediate publication of the Chilcot Inquiry report into the legality of the 2003 Iraq invasion. Sturgeon has written to other Scottish party leaders, urging them to unite in favor of immediate publication. The […]

Scots U-turn on anti-nukes policy

Press TV -June 25, 2013

The Scottish government has U-turned on its pledge to remove Trident nuclear weapons from the Scottish soil if Scots vote for independence in the 2014 referendum.
The ruling Scottish National Party (SNP) said in a set of proposals for defending an independent Scotland that Faslane naval base, which is the home to British Trident nuclear weapons, could remain a sovereign UK territory after the Scottish independence.