Author: Speymouth

UK Government policy is causing a population crisis in Scotland

Speymouth April 13, 2023

The Scottish Fiscal Commission recently released its Fiscal Sustainability Report and it makes clear that if Scotland remains part of Brexit Britain, the Scottish population will dwindle by almost half a million by 2073. The report serves a similar purpose to the UK Government’s Office for Budget Responsibility ‘Fiscal Risks and Sustainability Report’, in that […] Source

SNP down but not out

Speymouth April 13, 2023

First off, I’d like to thank everyone who left kind and supportive comments about my mother following her recent operation. She read them and was very touched and heartened by them and said that it meant a lot to her that so many people were wishing her well, even people that…

Thank you NHS Scotland

Speymouth April 10, 2023

The NHS in Scotland is a political football, scarcely a week goes by without Douglas Ross or Anas Sarwar mounting an opportunistic attack upon NHS Scotland even though the NHS services in England and Wales, which are run by the Conservatives and by Labour respectively, consistently performing more poorly than NHS…

The Crisis of Growth and Capital

Speymouth April 9, 2023

Something important has changed. The last two IPCC reports are significant in that they have identified the economy as the problem, not the solution. Faced with this harsh truth the ruling elites, supported by a pliant and cooperative media have engaged in a total backlash, attacking not just anyone who suggests an alternative economics, but […] Source

On Crofting, Landlordism, Rewilding and Depopulation

Speymouth April 8, 2023

This is my home, not just where I live, but my “home” and part of my community. There are eight croft houses and an equivalent number of new houses set in a patchwork of fields, pasture woodland and blocks of trees. Soon to be surrounded if not overcome, by new forestry. It sits on land […] Source