Westminster

Is there such a thing as a Scottish mandate?

14/12/2019 thomas 2 Comments

Before the creation of the Scottish Parliament, people seemed to agree that a majority of Scottish MPs could decide Scotland’s

06/07/2019 thomas 0 Comments

I saw a story recently about somebody calling for civil disobedience in Catalonia, and it made me wonder: Will this

24/09/2018 thomas 4 Comments

When Theresa May blocked the Scottish Parliament’s request for a new independence referendum in early 2017 by declaring that “now

13/09/201814/09/2018 thomas 0 Comments

Northern Ireland developed their own political parties a long time ago, and Scotland is now going down the same route

09/06/201709/06/2017 thomas 1 Comment

The SNP has lost a lot of excellent MPs, and Westminster will be poorer without them. Amongst them, my local

08/06/2017 thomas 2 Comments

I don’t understand why the vast majority of people haven’t sussed yet that Brexit will be an unmitigated disaster. I

18/04/2017 thomas 0 Comments

Theresa May seems to hate dissent. She wanted to push through Brexit without parliamentary approval, and she was happy to