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About davidsberry

Local ex-councillor, tour guide and database designer. Keen on wildlife, history, boats and music. Retired in 2017.

Another BRIC in the Wall

Posted on November 2, 2011 by davidsberry

From Scotland’s fausse freends like Moore, Murphy and Mundell an unending drone of unsubstantiated guff about all that Scotland benefits from its union wafts north of the border. Its volume and stamp of officialdom beguiles many genuinely uncommitted people to … Continue reading →

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A Peter Rabbit Version (for Unionists & Other Beginners)

Posted on November 1, 2011 by davidsberry

As I was about to say yesterday when Nick Clegg’s transatlantic ego pushed me off course, there are a number of people in Scotland to whom the motives—let alone the aims—of the SNP are suspect. There has been (as Mr … Continue reading →

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Land of Hype and Glaury

Posted on October 31, 2011 by davidsberry

Some lost souls milling around the Royal Concert Hall on Sunday seemed desperately in need of some direction. I had therefore intended to blog supposed ‘gaps’ in the SNP case for independence so they might see the error of their … Continue reading →

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Exclusive: Pot Calls Kettle Black

Posted on October 30, 2011 by davidsberry

Having had him as my MSP for four years, been in many of the same meetings as local council leader and crossed swords with him on several occasions as we contested East Lothian closely in May, I feel I know … Continue reading →

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Choice Means Understanding Options

Posted on October 28, 2011 by davidsberry

Growing up in North Berwick, we felt sorry for the private school kids. Shipped off in the train to Heriots or Melvilles in Edinburgh, they came home in weird uniforms long after dark when local kids were long done playing … Continue reading →

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They Shall Not Pass

Posted on October 27, 2011 by davidsberry

Today the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) weighed into the political debate with a plea for the SNP government to re-think its generous policies towards the people of Scotland. In the firing line were a number of planks that constructed … Continue reading →

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By the Numbers

Posted on October 25, 2011 by davidsberry

The UK unionists in the shape of Michael Moore MP, last(?) Sec. of State for (a.k.a. Viceroy of) Scotland, has wheeled out UK Treasury stats like a good boy to prove that, taken over the 30 years North Sea oil … Continue reading →

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Down Our Street

Posted on October 24, 2011 by davidsberry

Regular readers of this blog may already be thoroughly fed up with the way I bang on about ‘community’ and its importance to people’s sense of wellbeing and belonging, which in turn gives a far better tone to society as … Continue reading →

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It’s Not the When—It’s the How

Posted on October 22, 2011 by davidsberry

Unionist blogspots are having conniption fits about the lack of a date for an independence referendum. Like surgeons worrying about an unexplained lump, they have refused to be part of any constructive solution until someone has diagnosed the issue in … Continue reading →

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You Want Reasons? Ask Anyone…

Posted on October 21, 2011 by davidsberry

Having pressed the flesh around Eden Court in Inverness, I realise there are still those in the party who either don’t know of me or have not witnessed my work in the cause. So, for any SNP delegate reader yet … Continue reading →

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