A rally in Glasgow on November 30, 2011, a day that saw 300,000 public sector workers across Scotland go out on strike IT was always macabre to read of Japanese soldiers still fighting a war decades after it was over: so how sad to read of Donald Cameron still fighting the Scottish election 90 days after the public gave his party a paltry 22%, and when before and after that election, his party has been actively recruiting personnel and campaigning in the media against Scottish secession ( Sturgeon accused of ‘plotting to divide people’ with new indy call , The Herald, August 3). For his sake, I would remind him that the UK has always been facing an “economic crisis”. Stop-go policies post-war. Boom and bust economic bubbles. Three-day weeks. Endless strikes. Winter of discontent. It was only the exploitation of Scottish oil that has allowed the UK to pretend all was well for a few decades.
SCOTTISH ELECTION 2021: Cunninghame candidates talk climate change OVER the next few weeks, we will be giving each local candidate in the Scottish Parliament elections a chance to have their say. We willbe questioning them on a range of topics of vital importance to the Scottish public. This week, the candidates will be giving their views on the topic of climate change and telling us their plans if elected to Holyrood on May 5. Standing for the Cunninghame South seat in this election are Ruth Maguire, SNP; Louise McPhater, Labour; David Rocks, Conservative, Tom Armstrong, Liberal Democrat and Maurice Campbell, independent.
Ruth Maguire (SNP) on climate change:
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