Author: Speymouth

You Can be Sure of Shell

Speymouth February 5, 2023

You’ll have heard the news. Shell has just announced record breaking annual profits of more than £32 BILLION. its highest profits in 115 years. The same week the company admitted it had paid just $134m in British windfall taxes during 2022. It’s the same week that British Gas – who’s profits are also up by […] Source

Poachers Turned Gamekeeper

Speymouth February 3, 2023

The news that Torcuil Crichton, the Daily Record’s long-serving Westminster Editor is set to become Labour candidate in Na h-Eileanan an Iar at the next General Election created a mixed reaction. Those of a generous disposition might say ‘well at least he’s putting himself forward to the public vote’, while those of a more cynical […] Source

British politics, a consensus of delusion

Speymouth February 2, 2023

Every time the deputy Prime Minister Demonic, sorry, Dominic Raab appears on the telly I can’t help but think about one of those crime dramas in which an arrogant area sales manager with a terrible temper and a permanent smirk is spied on by his neighbours in the dead of night,…

Brexit : Three years on, lies, deceit and delusion

Speymouth February 1, 2023

On Tuesday 31 January it was the third anniversary of the UK crashing out of the EU with Boris Johnson’s half baked and fundamentally dishonest Brexit deal. None of the much heralded Brexit benefits have materialised, there is still no sign of the advantageous trade deals that the rest of the…

EU membership for Scotland, let’s do it the right way

Speymouth January 31, 2023

The SNP constitution secretary Angus Robertson has suggested that a vote for Scottish independence should also count as a vote for Scotland to rejoin the European Union and that a second vote on EU membership would therefore not be required. He said that in a future vote the independence case would…

Brexit three years on – still an unmitigated disaster for Scotland

Speymouth January 31, 2023

It has now been almost seven years since the UK voted to leave the European Union and three years since the UK left the EU in direct conflict with the stated democratic will of the Scottish people. The Scottish electorate was ignored and Scotland was ripped from the European community against what has now been […] Source