The SNP and the Yes campaign supporters have been the cheerleaders for EU membership and the concept of “Scotland in the EU”. Yet working class unity across Britain is essential to our future…
26 January 2017
In a significant judgement, the Supreme Court has rejected the claim by the devolved governments that their “legislative consent” was needed before triggering Article 50.
31 October 2016
After the SNP lost the 2014 vote, many in Scotland joined the SNP. In England too, many joined Labour and the Lib Dems after the EU referendum. These are reactionary currents.
A YouGov poll in July indicated that Britain’s decision to leave the EU has not cut Scottish support for remaining within the UK, undermining the SNP’s push for a second referendum.
29 June 2016
Conveniently forgetting that over a million people in Scotland voted to quit the EU, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon now is now threatening to veto our leaving. She must know she can’t.
29 May 2016
Operation of the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services is to remain in public ownership for at least the next eight years. This victory follows an RMT campaign against a possible takeover by Serco.
4 May 2016
The CPBML’s London May Day rally heard a blistering attack on the European Union, and powerful arguments for leaving.
14 March 2016
A CPBML meeting in Glasgow on why trade unionists should vote to leave the EU drew a diverse and enthusiastic audience ready to contribute their own ideas.
The SNP is weighing in behind those who want to see an end to the BBC as we know it. Scottish Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop has just outlined her plans for a “federal BBC with at least a Board for each nation” with a budget controlled in Scotland.
28 June 2015
Ferry workers halted sailings to islands on the west coast of Scotland, taking action against the threat to wages, standards and jobs arising from an EU-enforced privatisation process.
2 May 2015
This biography of the new SNP leader by David Torrance is well-informed and full of ideas. His is both appreciative and critical of his subject. His objectvity brings out the flaws in the SNP position.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has concluded that Scotland would be left with a £7.6 billion gap in its finances if it pursued fiscal autonomy, because falling oil revenues would leave the country with a tax shortfall – to be met by cuts or taxes.
Despite the defeat of the separatists in the Scottish referendum, huge new powers are to be devolved to Edinburgh – with consequent implications for the rest of Britain.
30 November 2014
Today is St Andrew’s Day, and in celebration Google has a new and perhaps ironic logo: a speeding train with the Scottish Saltire on the side.
The SNP-led administration in Scotland has awarded the contract to run ScotRail to Abellio, owned by Dutch state rail company NS.
The defeat of separatism in the referendum has spurred some regeneration in Scottish shipyards. But the challenge remains: how to rebuild a vital industry laid waste by decades of contraction…
9 October 2014
SNP leader Alex Salmond promised on 19 September to accept the referendum result and he urged Yes supporters to do the same. He at once broke this promise.
30 September 2014
Reports that 71 per cent of 16- to 17-year-olds voted Yes in the Scottish referendum don’t stand up to scrutiny, says statistics programme.
19 September was a great day, a great victory – a day of unity when the people of Scotland finally spoke and buried the narrow aspirations of separatism…
Now that the referendum is over, the focus of the media has leapfrogged the coming months and focused on the general election. Nothing else is held to be relevant.
A Glasgow concert for unity formed part of the campaign to keep Britain together by promoting the No vote in the Scottish referendum.
Germany economy shrinking…From lobbyist to Commissioner…Migration up…EU and Scotland…Barroso on the referendum
Better Together
Adelaide’s, 209 Bath Street, G2 4HZ
Includes the Dalriada Quartet playing the world première of Eddie McGuire’s Unity Suite. More details to come on www.votenoborders.co.uk
Organisations with “British” in their name ought to be concerned that they could lose this identity and be diminished if the Yes opinion wins September’s referendum on independence for Scotland, says composer Eddie McGuire.
Great Britain was born as a state in 1707. In essence, the Treaty of Union was a formal recognition of the ascendancy of capitalism over feudalism in all of this country. Once united, the combined resources and talents of the two countries were at the service of capital.
Britain one nation: say no to division
Bertrand Russell Room, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL. Nearest tube Holborn.
With the Scottish referendum only months away, come and discuss why Britain must stay united. Everybody welcome.
See linked article here.
Launch of the building of the Hands Across the Border cairn at Gretna, 20 July 2014. People from all over Britain link arms for unity as they sing Auld Lang Syne after laying their stones.
Scotland’s last non-military shipbuilder, Ferguson’s on the Clyde, is heading for bankruptcy, with the loss of 70 jobs – despite a promise from SNP leader Alex Salmond to maintain it
The Scottish referendum is an attempt to turn the growing desire in Britain to be an independent country into its opposite, for Britain to be partitioned instead.
