No more business as usual politics post-referendum
by John McAllion, former Labour MP and MSP, now an SSP member As commentators variously try to make sense of Scotland’s post-referendum landscape, it is becoming ever ...
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If Jim Murphy wins – Scottish Labour loses
by John McAllion, ex-Labour MP and MSP, now an SSP member They say that every picture tells a story. Yet one image from Labour’s recent Manchester party conference conceals ...
Politics moves right in England – Labour faces Scottish meltdown
by John McAllion, ex-Labour MP and MSP, now an SSP member Unionist politicians have tried to spin the result of the referendum as an irrevocable defeat for the very idea of ...
Labour set to be big losers after No vote
by John McAllion, former Labour MP and MSP, now an SSP member Scottish Labour originally tried ignoring “Labour for Independence” after its launch in 2012. When the group ...
Another Scotland is possible
by John McAllion, Scottish Socialist Party (former Labour MP and MSP) One memento I have kept from my time as a Labour politician is a CD of the Reverend Hammer’s Freeborn ...
Never mind Salmond – what’s Labour’s ‘Plan B’ to halt ConDem cuts?
by John McAllion The timing of the independence referendum was always going to cause major problems for the No camp. For more than four years Scotland has suffered under a ...
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