Argyll to get funding to maintain construction industry and housing...
The Scottish Government recently announced that it had set aside £17million from its total projected spend of £120million to reinvigorate the Scottish economy in these recessionary days.Deputy First...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Local Government Pension Scheme UK’s 4th most prudently managed
The Taxpayers’ Alliance has just published its report on UK Local Government Pension Schemes - showing cause for concern in the extent to which significant deficits exist between the assets and...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute shows fall in youth unemployment figures
The number of 16-19 year olds out of work in Argyll and Bute and claiming Job Seekers’ Allowance in September 2013 has fallen by 35 since the same month last year, September 2012.In raw numbers, with...
View ArticleScottish Labour Leadership: the timeline is Murphy’s headache
With two Holyrood Labour parliamentarians now formally declared as candidates for the Leadership of Scottish Labour – centrist, Sarah Boyack [declared last night] and left winger, Neil Findlay...
View ArticleScottish Labour to have a clear choice of direction and team
With Kezia Dugdale MSP making her pre-announced candidacy for the Deputy Leadership of Scottish Labour official this morning, the electoral college that will select the party’s Leader and Deputy Leader...
View ArticleJim Murphy’s dilemmas
The new leader of Scottish Labour, Jim Murphy, currently MP for East Renfrewshire [formerly Eastwood], has said that he aims to be an MSP by 2016 and will explain that in more detail in the New Year....
View ArticleBaillie scores off a penalty as Swinney wisely back tracks on stamp duty
It was only in October last, not long after Chancellor George Osborne had altered the stamp duty on property sales, that Scotland’s Finance Secretary and Deputy First Minister, John Swinney, produced...
View ArticleJim Murphy under pressure to confirm intentions for East Renfrewshire
New Scottish Labour Leader, Jim Murphy, promised on taking office to make his political intentions known ‘in the New Year’ – in respect of whether or not he would stand in May 2015 as the Labour...
View ArticleScottish Labour Leader self-mutilating in coyness on parliamentary intentions
Jim Murphy, new Leader of Scottish Labour and MP for East Renfrewshire, is tactically askew in his non-handling of the matter of his parliamentary intentions. Following his winning of the Scottish...
View ArticleScottish election analysis
Total immersion in number crunching and interpretation completed, the texture of this unforgettable election result in Scotland creates a memorable and, in some cases, perhaps a surprising picture.The...
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