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About davidsberry

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

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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More Than Just Hot Air?

Posted on October 20, 2011 by davidsberry

The way that both big companies and the ConDem coalition think of Scotland has been revealed through a number of key issues over the summer. Far from being the sovereign state that only the SNP argues for and that could … Continue reading →

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I Hope Labour Doesn’t Read This

Posted on October 19, 2011 by davidsberry

Despite what Tom Harris claims, we SNP foot-soldiers do sometimes fall out with Alex. It’s just we don’t make a fuss about it because he’s right most of the time and I defy you to show me another Scottish politician … Continue reading →

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Bullshit Makes for Bad Politics

Posted on October 18, 2011 by davidsberry

Given that I have spent most of the last two decades getting my feet firmly under the table in my home town of North Berwick and three of those years absorbed by running the local council as Leader, it’s gratifying—and … Continue reading →

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Why the LGC Matters to the SNP

Posted on October 17, 2011 by davidsberry

In these heady days of new frontiers for their parliamentarians, SNP activists may be forgiven for sidelining the work of volunteers elected to the SNP’s National Executive Committee. As with other political parties, the NEC is theoretically the supreme body of … Continue reading →

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Do Not Adjust Your Browsers

Posted on October 16, 2011 by davidsberry

Delighted as I am at the number of people choosing to read this blog, regular readers deserve a content warning covering the next week: this blog will turn heavily SNP-internal. Being nominated for the SNP’s Local Government Convener post on … Continue reading →

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Alexander the Greet

Posted on October 13, 2011 by davidsberry

Finally, five months after May’s drubbing and several months into a leadership contest comparable to watching paint dry, there are some signs of life in Labour. Not Scottish Labour, mind you, but someone down in Victoria Street has read dispatches … Continue reading →

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