Meanwhile, back in the real world, the Tories gain a Council seat from the SNP. No evidence here of a huge Pro-Indy swing. The baseline is the 2017 council elections which took place a few weeks befo… (View Post)

I seem to remember seeing a poll that indicated that a substantial proportion of Scottish Green supporters are not in favour of independence. Robin Harper, the former leader of the Scottish Greens, w… (View Post)

The problem, Leon, is what do they do about the currency? There is no answer to that question at all, so far as I can see. The political answer - sterlingisation - risks national bankruptcy. See: htt… (View Post)

I seem to remember that at one point he changed his name, by deedpoll, to Austin Haddock, in protest at the evisceration of the fishing industry. He was MP for Grimsby and an outspoken Euro-sceptic. … (View Post)

At the end of the day only the USA has the will and the resources to do anything serious about "out of area" interventions. The UK can, and sometimes does, support but obviously we cant act… (View Post)