SNP’s Westminster Leader warns MOD on sending Scots troops back into action...
Angus Robertson, SNP MP and leader of the party’s Westminster team, yesterday warned the Ministry of Defence (MOD) that their practice of sending Scots troops back into action in Afghanistan without...
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And a handbrake turn on the largest single tax hike on whisky in forty years...
The U-turn (Wednesday 26th November): The whisky industry has rightly flexed its considerable muscle. Suddenly this was all an awful mistake, The Chancellor (and HMV) had ‘not intended’ to do anything...
View ArticleMP calls for Lossiemouth to be first Virgin Galactic commercial spaceport –...
SNP leader at Westminster, Angus Robertson, MP for Moray, had given his support to Virgin Galactic to use RAF Lossiemouth in his constituency as a base for space tourism. Richard Branson;s Virgin...
View ArticleMather calls for reassessment of defence spending priorities as Trident hits...
Angus Robertson MP, the SNP’s Defence Spokesman at Westminster, has put together figures on the projected maintenance costs of retaining Trident nuclear submarines over the next ten years at their...
View ArticleNorway’s Oil Fund, Scotland’s oil and Scotland’s banks
Norway’s attitude to its oil wealth, from the outset, has shown the sort of fiscal long-sightedness that should be the aim and practice of any nation in respect of its significant resources.In the UK,...
View ArticleAngus Robertson & Jim Mather’s response to MoD Chinook revelations
SNP Westminster Leader and Defence Spokesperson, Angus Robertson MP, has hit out at the MoD after fresh evidence emerged suggesting the Mull of Kintyre Chinook disaster may have been caused by a...
View ArticleMcGrigor gets Conservative Party commitment to Independent Inquiry into 1994...
Recent revelations have shown that the Ministry of Defence knew for nine months before the tragic 1994 crash, that the automatic engine control software – FADEC – in the Chinook Mark 2 was so...
View ArticleBestest friends shack up at Dunvotin’
Well, it’s all over. September 18th has come and gone. It was 50%+1 for Indy. Tom Farmer reckons he was the magic ‘+1′. After all the money he spent making up everyone else’s mind, he has to be...
View ArticleDown at Dunvotin’
Last time we put our ear to the wall of the semi-detached rural idyll where the bestest friends at Dunvotin’ are negotiatin’, we overheard Dave play a sneaky trump card on Alex. And no. He hadn’t...
View ArticleFight for SNP Deputy Leader pits future against past
As For Argyll predicted, the real leadership fight in the SNP was going to be with the contest for deputy leader of the party and therefore Deputy First Minster of Scotland.And also, as we predicted,...
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