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Who wants this forced federalism?
The Welsh government, led by Labour, has announced what it calls an “Independent Constitutional Commission”.
Just six months left to save ScotRail, say unions
23 September 2021
Four trade unions came together on 22 September to demonstrate in Edinburgh on Wednesday. Their message: that there are just six months left to save ScotRail.
Nursing shortages: move on from the blame game
14 September 2021
The shortage of nurses is worldwide. There’s no future in leaving it to the SNP or the British governmemt to resolve.
ScotRail: SNP bluster
11 September 2021
The rail union RMT is defending rail services and attacks on its members in Scotland from the train operating company and the hostile SNP government.
SNP and Greens: a coalition born of weakness
The failure of the SNP to gain a majority in the elections to the Scottish parliament has forced them into a huddle with the equally separatist Greens – and into a series of increasingly unpopular policies…
Long-running pay fight engulfs ScotRail
21 August 2021
Scotland is currently hosting the longest pay dispute on the railways so far, with ScotRail guards striking every Sunday since 28 March.
ScotRail plans new wave of cuts
21 August 2021
Not to be outdone by the headlong rush across Britain to cut back rail services, Scotland has joined the fray announcing proposals to permanently slash its train services.
Senedd to increase in size?
20 May 2021
Labour in Wales did not mention it in its manifesto, but now it wants to spend millions on creating yet more seats in the Senedd assembly – at public cost but without public benefit.
Setback for separatists
16 May 2021
The much-trumpeted “super-majority” for Scottish separatists never materialised when the SNP and the Alba Party faced the voters last week.
Why we all need the Union – and sterling
The threat to the unity of the British working class comes not just from separatists, but also from those throughout Britain who kid themselves that it doesn’t matter to them.
For a united Britain
16 April 2021
This book makes the case for continued and renewed union as better both for Scots and for their fellow British citizens.
Five reasons why Britain should stay united
Forces within Britain sympathetic to the EU and backed by it are seeking to tear our country apart – just when Britain has liberated itself from Brussels to chart an independent course in the world. But a united Britain is a condition for progress, says the CPBML.
Unreality grips as separatists desert industry
While the SNP concentrates on eye-catching headlines, industry in Scotland faces a bleak future after years of kowtowing to EU state aid rules and a long-term agenda of fragmentation and privatisation…
Wales – integral to Britain
There’s a reason why the people of Wales have not succumbed to separatism. As a recent book shows, they are committed to the union…
Steep cost of separatism revealed
9 February 2021
A new analysis of the prospects for Scotland should the SNP succeed in detaching it from the rest of Britain makes grim reading for the separatists.
SNP in bid to stop test case for unilateral referendum
23 January 2021
Scotland’s Attorney General told its highest court on Friday 21 January that the pro-separatist campaigner seeking a ruling that the Scottish parliament can lawfully hold a second “independence” referendum unilaterally lacks the legal standing to bring his case.
Devolving health: it doesn’t make sense
For Britain to persist with devolved health services is a nonsense – economies of scale are being lost and during the current health crisis efforts are being dissipated. A look at Scotland indicates the scale of the problem…
SNP ferries fiasco
Ageing ferry ships that have provided life-line services to dozens of islands around the coasts of Scotland should have been replaced in 2018...
Devolution 'confusion' hampered Covid-19 response, says report
9 November 2020
A report from the Institute of Government points out the dangers of devolution exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Break the separatist mindset!
There are now six months to blunt the axe of those who plan to break up Britain. But encouragingly, those who are pushing for fragmentation are increasingly seeking to tear each other apart too…
STUC: public spending ‘plot’?
Pro-separatism in the Scottish TUC seems to have led it to conclude that increased public spending by Westminster is against the interest of workers…
RMT takes second round of action in sleeper dispute
6 October 2020
RMT union members brought Serco Caledonian Sleeper services to a halt on Sunday, affecting journeys linking cities in Scotland with London and the south.
Devolution gathering pace
7 August 2020
Last week devolution in South Yorkshire became law, and attempts to devolve spending plans for the nation’s capital to the mayor are now being mooted.
Separatists’ fear of the ballot box grows
Unable to achieve its aims through democratic means, the SNP is edging towards a set of manoeuvres that would see Scotland leaving Britain by stealth…
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