Poll: Pro-Indy tactical vote for Greens cost SNP an overal majority TACTICAL voting for the Scottish Greens on the Holyrood list cost the SNP an overall majority, and may have made independence less likely, a new survey has suggested. Pollsters found around half of those who voted Green on the list did so wanting to elect as many pro-independence MSPs as possible, rather than actively supporting the party. However the result was to leave the SNP one short of a majority, making it easier for Boris Johnson to refuse Nicola Sturgeon the power to hold another referendum. The Greens won a record eight seats on May 6 while the SNP won 64 out of 129.
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The Bursting of the Bubble
May the eleventh has slipped past, the new speed limits in the urban areas are in place and the exasperation of drivers hangs in the air as a large puff of irritation. The new limits may or may not save lives but what they will certainly do is alter the cost of living as delivery drivers, doing what delivery drivers do, take longer to complete their journeys.
So, the motor car was hailed as a clever invention to make travelling quicker, nevertheless, because of the real danger of speed, or in some cases poor driving skills, what was originally called the horseless carriage has gone full circle and back to a speed no faster than that enjoyed before its development.
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On the anniversary of Fiji’s first coup, 14 May 1987, Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry reflects on the the price the nation paid for the racist coup which took place one month after the first Labour Government of Dr. Timoci Bavadra took office..
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That challenge is for all of us.
National development plans must ensure that the interests of our masses become paramount.
If our ordinary people lose faith through unfair and inequitable policies,
then the future is fraught with uncertainties.
We must restore the faith of our people in democracy … above all, in Fiji.”
These words were uttered 34 years ago by Labour Prime Minister Dr. Timoci Bavadra – a man of vision, known for his deep compassion and empathy for the ordinary people of Fiji. Dr Bavadra was committed to an open and caring government that believed in social justice and people-centred development policies.
Gordon Brown calls on Nicola Sturgeon to spell out costs of independence and publish referendum legal advice
The former Prime Minister said the SNP leader must tell Scots what she means by independence and should say what the legal advice is on passing a referendum bill through Holyrood without Westminster approval.
Gordon Brown said the majority of Scots want better co-operation between governments (Image: Daily Mirror)
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LABOUR’S stronghold on Durham County Council will face one its biggest challenges in more than a century when voters go to the polls this week. The 2019 General Election saw the party’s ‘red wall’ collapse in traditional northern heartlands, notably the North-East, with a swathe of new Tory candidates ousting sitting MPs. In County Durham, Tony Blair’s former constituency of Sedgefield was taken from Phil Wilson by Paul Howell, left-wing firebrand Laura Pidcock lost North-West Durham to Richard Holden while in Bishop Auckland Dehenna Davison replaced Helen Goodman. Many people had never voted Conservative before but for many people the election was being determined by the polarising issues of Brexit and the hard left agenda pursued by the Labour Party under former leader Jeremy Corbyn.