Stephen Daisley
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Huffs and mutters: Talk about Scottish stuff at Holyrood? (opens the original)
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The five sweetest words in the English language: ‘That concludes First Minister’s Questions.’ Presiding Officer Kenny Gibson uttered them after half an hour in the chamber, though it felt much longer. John Swinney is a man unburdened by charisma. He has no patter and no routine, only relentless repitition. He learns the line, he says the line, and he repeats the line until everyone can quote the line in their sleep. It’s a skill that came in handy during questions from Malcolm Offord. The Reform
More than a socialist, our new PM is a sentimentalist (opens the original)
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If you hanker for the decade of flares, shag carpeting and the Bay City Rollers, Andy Burnham’s conference speech was pitched directly to you. For the Prime Minister’s address to the Labour faithful in Liverpool was a gushing love letter to the suffocating socialism of the 1970s. His remarks, the most chilling from any Labour prime minister of my lifetime, outlined a wild lurch to the Left that went far beyond anything even Jeremy Corbyn attempted during his time as Labour leader. Nationalisatio
DAISLEY: Don't be taken in by slick snake oil salesman John Swinney (opens the original)
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John Swinney needed a distraction. By his own admission, the First Minister knew several months ago that the next drugs deaths statistics would show a significant increase in fatalities. In the event, the figures recorded an 11 per cent surge in Scots losing their lives to illicit substances. Despite investments and promises and mission statements and the rest, Scotland was still the drugs deaths capital of Europe – and getting worse. So, it was with abject cynicism rather than genuine coinciden
STEPHEN DAISLEY: The First Minister knows no shame... (opens the original)
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On Tuesday, the Scottish parliament spent more than two and a half hours proposing, debating, amending and voting on a non-binding motion on independence. On Wednesday, the Scottish parliament spent 27 minutes debating new figures showing 1,133 Scots died from drug use in the past year. That’s 1.4 seconds for every life lost. Both the scale of this narcotic carnage and the Scottish parliament’s indifference toward it ought to make someone – anyone – in power feel ashamed. I doubt many of them ar
STEPHEN DAISLEY: Greer had the wide eyed excitement of a schoolboy (opens the original)
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It was 3pm on a Tuesday and the Scottish Parliament was debating independence again because of course it was. It’s always independence, or Gaza, or independence for Gaza, or whether Gaza is for independence. Forgive me, but by this point all the grievances have congealed into one bulging terrine of resentment, and I’ve more than had my fill. John Swinney had tabled a motion seeking the parliament’s confirmation that Scotland was ‘a nation’. Of course, thanks to the SNP, we all know Scotland is a
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