Top Secret Speech Leaked This blog has received a top-secret leak of Nicola Sturgeon’s forthcoming speech on IndyRef2. Here’s the draft: Journalists, and people called ‘Ruth’, ask me every day whether I will give up on a second independence referendum.

I’d like to give a simple, direct, once-and-for-all answer...http://serosedseriocat.blogspot.com.es/2017/06/top-secret-speech-leaked.html

Poor EvidenceAfter 38 years of neoliberal policies at Westminster you'd expect to see some evidence that wealth has 'trickled down...http://serosedseriocat.blogspot.com.es/2017/05/poor-evidence.html

The Rape of Logic The "rape clause" is abhorrent. It requires women claiming Child Benefit for a third or subsequent child to prove that the child was conceived by rape... It will be poor women who will suffer most... My blog:http://serosedseriocat.blogspot.com.es/2017/04/the-rape-of-logic.html

Prawn and ships

The European Union's Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, was interviewed in yesterday's La Vanguardia, the leading Catalan newspaper. Asked by Anna Buj of La Vanguardia about Brexit, Ms O'Reilly said:

"People have the right to no surprises at the end of the two years of negotiations, and as far as possible they should know how the conversations are going." 

...more...http://serosedseriocat.blogspot.com.es/2017/04/prawn-and-ships.html

Perfect, Prime MinisterScotland has the perfect Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister who has briefed her Ministers not to respond to the Scottish Government's detailed alternative proposals to keep Scotland's place in Europe.

The Prime Minister who, yesterday, said yes to a referendum for Scotland, but managed to make it sound like a no. 

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Confidence Trick Theresa May is a skilled politician. She knows how to win power, and to yield power.

She is confident that the Tories will win the next election, and the one after that. In those elections, Scotland is meaningless - its single Tory MP a toothless man in a beard. Labour too is meaningless, lost in its self-flagellation.

She enjoys power, so it is no surprise that, as she announced yesterday, she will be grabbing it back from the Scottish people...http://serosedseriocat.blogspot.com.es/2017/03/confidence-trick.html

A House of CardboardHolyrood is a cardboard parliament. A single puff of wind from Westminster is enough to blow it over. Three stories evince its weakness:  Yesterday, Angus Robertson MP asked a key question: would decision making powers on agriculture and fisheries be returned to Scotland after Brexit? He said: "with Brexit ending the role of Brussels in these areas will all decisions about agriculture and fisheres be made at Holyrood, yes or no?"


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What does racism and separatism look like? How would we know it if we saw it? What are its defining characteristics? Who are its advocates? Let’s see if we can find out. Racists definitely don’t like immigration. That’s a basic. They’ll try to terrify people with wildly exaggerated dog-whistle “warnings” about their country and their […]

Sneaking Out

Who do we really care about?

Family, friends, vulnerable people, children...?

Let's start with the children. The most vulnerable children. Kids without parents, living as refugees just across the 'hard border' that separates England from France....

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Last week witnessed the latest in what Pacific Quay euphemistically calls ‘A BBC Scotland Investigation’ when a Freedom of Information request revealed figures relating to call handling by Police Scotland. The figures appeared impressive, showing only 82 so-called ‘near misses’…

Last week witnessed the latest in what Pacific Quay euphemistically calls ‘A BBC Scotland Investigation’ when a Freedom of Information request revealed figures relating to call handling by Police Scotland. The figures appeared impressive, showing only 82 so-called ‘near misses’…

And you thought that after the deaths of a whole lot of celebrities who were actually talented but Ed Balls doesn’t get voted off Strictly, Scotland getting ripped out of the EU despite the fact we voted to remain, and the election as US president of a serial groper and narcissist who’s appointing outright fascists […]

Earlier this year, the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee launched an inquiry into "the role and purpose of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service," to focus on:"... its core role and examine the effectiveness and efficiency of the COPFS, how well it works with its stakeholders, and the support it provides to witnesses and victims of crime. The Committee will also examine its...

Dear Elites 

You got us into this bloody mess. Now fix it.

My latest blog on #Brexit and #BoJo at http://serosedseriocat.blogspot.com.es/2016/11/top-down.html

Brexit, and the Stalinist economy...of the Tory Party. My latest blog http://serosedseriocat.blogspot.com.es/2016/11/red-tories.html

This morning's newspaper here in #Catalonia. #indyref2 in 2018. Who will get to independence first - Scotland or Catalonia??

Scotland, a country of migrants, is going to suffer as Westminster turns right. My latest blog: http://serosedseriocat.blogspot.com.es/2016/10/vote-right.html

Scots living in the EU are to be treated as bargaining chips in the #Brexit negotiations, says David Davis. I refuse. I am #NoHostage. My latest blog: http://serosedseriocat.blogspot.com.es/2016/10/no-hostage.html

@Murchie Thanks Dave. I'm a bit of a sporadic writer so members of a group might get bored waiting... But I'll take a look at how groups work.

One more Munro, my latest blog. http://serosedseriocat.blogspot.com.es/2016/09/one-more-munro.html