john mcallion

No more business as usual politics post-referendum

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 clearer that we are now in ...

If Jim Murphy wins – Scottish Labour loses

November 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 much more than it ...

Politics moves right in England – Labour faces Scottish meltdown

October 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 Scottish independence. ...

Labour set to be big losers after No vote

October 2, 2014 // 5 Comments

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 began to attract media ...

Another Scotland is possible

September 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 John. The CD tells in ...

Never mind Salmond – what’s Labour’s ‘Plan B’ to halt ConDem cuts?

August 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 government it did not elect ...