If she isn't willing to resign her seat and stand in a by-election the SNP should refuse to allow her into the party.
A charlatan of the highest order
Speaking ahead of the announcement on the future of Scotland’s air bases, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Ann McKechin MP said:
"The resilience, spirit and energy shown by both campaigns at Leuchars and Lossiemouth over the last nine long months has been remarkable.
"From start to finish the defence review has been conducted at reckless speed with George Osborne in the driving seat, fuelled by his desire to cut faster and deeper than is safe.
"After decades of loyal service to the RAF, the local communities of Leuchars and Lossiemouth are hugely dependent on the bases and I fear the consequences will be catastrophic if either of the bases is allowed to close.
"There has been much speculation about what would happen if the bases were to close, but these plans appear to be years not months away from implementation.
"If any Scottish base is to close then we must have a clear undertaking from the UK government that these communities will be treated fairly and an immediate action plan is put in place to support people locally.
"After years of loyal service to this county it would be a gross betrayal for the Tory-led government to now abandon these proud RAF communities."
Scottish Labour has said it is time for "100 per cent public disclosure" of all files relating to the SNP’s plans to introduce a local income tax which are yet to be made public.
The SNP have repeatedly claimed, as recently as Thursday, all information relating to the impact of the policy was already in the public domain. That is not the case.
Labour also published a list of 10 questions the SNP must answer on their sudden decision to drop their publicly funded court action to block the release of this information.
Scottish Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Local Government, Michael McMahon MSP, said:
"The fact is it is still the SNP’s long-term goal to introduce a local income tax that will hammer hard-pressed families to the tune of £500 per year.
"The SNP claim that all ‘information is already in the public domain’ is utter nonsense. It isn’t. We need 100 per cent public disclosure of these secret SNP files so everybody knows exactly how much more Alex Salmond wants to tax every Scottish family already feeling the squeeze.
"We need to know exactly how much this cover-up campaign has cost hard-pressed taxpayers.
"If the SNP have nothing to hide then they should have problem immediately publishing all documents on the Scottish government website for all to see.
"Alex Salmond should not only apologise to for misleading the Scottish public about his plans to hike up tax bills but he should make sure the SNP pay back every penny of public money spent on this party political cynical cover-up campaign."
A surprisingly good turn out at the Forth Neighbourhood Partnership
Public Meeting at Telford College last night.
Local groups and organisations including Community Renewal, Libraries,
Granton Churches and North Edinburgh Arts took advantage of the Market
area to set out information stalls and showcase the range of services
available in the ward.
The aim of the meeting was to update on the regeneration projects in
the Forth Ward and the FNP team had pulled all the stops out to ensure
that a good selection of representatives from City Development, Land
owners and Housing Associations were in attendance to do just that.....
This was a well attended meeting – just disgraceful that no opportunity was given to the community, to ask public questions, in what is supposedly a ‘Public Meeting’. After being informed by the Lothian Health representative, that the reent reports of the long awaited Healthcare Partnership Centre have some truthm in that it may be postponed, redued in size – or indeed shelved (as reported in the evening news) !!!
No opportunity to ask any questions about this or the verly slow, to nil pace of investment in the Granton Waterfront.
If Neighbourhood Partnerships are to be successful, we need to be open and transparent, and not be shy or frightened to face the public, and respond to them !
I can only hope the next ‘Public Meeting’ whenever it may be – will have the opportunity for questions to be asked, and answered!
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This won't be the end of the matter no doubt and I was pleased to discover that even ward colleagues read my blog to see what is happening on this issue! |
Last week Nick Clegg gave an audience to a group of students who are angry at his about-turn on tuition fees. It may have been overlooked at the time - not least because Danny Alexander was busy sacking a spokesperson live on air - but it's worth watching
http://www.labourlist.org/clegg-told-hes-sold-out-by-students?utm_source=taomail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=111432+Only+8%25+of+coalition+MPs+back+%27Big+Society%27+%2F+Clegg+confronted+by+angry+students+%2F+Livingstone+leads+London+poll+%28LL457%29&tmtid=111432-11636-11636-162-12-1210-68724
Iain Gray said,,
In highlighting many of the SNP failed promises....
In less than one hundred days, Scotland will choose its course for the next one thousand days. I am standing to be First Minister and win this election because Scotland deserves better.
click here for more info
Fib Dem collapse?
More Lie'b Dem failings reported recently..
Further to my last posting....Maybe less than rock-bottom in Scotland. According to a poll today, support for the Liberal Democrats in Scotland has fallen by more than half since the last Holyrood elections! The party’s public opinion ratings have fallen by five percentage points over the last five months. This follows all their broken promises on manifesto commitments like tuition fees and VAT.
The LibDems’ five-percentage-point fall to a tiny 7% in Scotland, is also found in the regional list vote comparison with last August. Labour are well in the lead and the main beneficiaries.
However, I’ll continue working hard to put across Labour’s message locally and fight for local residents and businesses.
Full story:-
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/libdems-hit-by-backlash-as-scottish-vote-collapses-1.1080206
LIB DEM LET DOWN
The Liberal Democrats faced a depressing start to the political year today, after a poll of polls revealed the party's support had hit rock bottom.
A weighted average of surveys from ComRes, ICM, Ipsos MORI and YouGov by the Independent put the party on just 11%, its lowest level since it was formed in 1988.
Nick Clegg became the most unpopular third party leader since David Owen led the Social Democratic party (SDP) in 1989.
Meanwhile, Labour retained a small lead over the Conservatives, on 40% compared to the Tories 38%.
If the results were repeated at a general election the Lib Dems would be reduced to 15 MPs from their current 57.
full story here
