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AN OPEN LETTER FROM JIM SILLARS TO SCOTLAND’S PENSIONERS I am 76 years of age. My State Pension is safe with independence, and so is yours. Who says so? The UK Department for Work and Pensions in a statement made…

Delighted to see a level of debate that rises above the doom-and-gloom gutter into which Better Together and its Westminster apologists keep trying to drag the debate on the most important decision of our lives.

Originally posted on A Burdz Eye View:
If you had the chance, how would you build a nation? What qualities would you want your people and communities to have? Courage, certainly. To decide in a split second that the right…

Originally posted on A Burdz Eye View:
2013 has, in many ways, been a transition year. It’s not over yet, of course, but November always seems like a good point at which to pause and reflect, before the hurly burly…

October 9th’s Hootsmon carried a minor tirade from David O’Neill, President of CoSLA and Leader of the Labour administration of North Ayrshire Council in which he asserts that the present freeze on Council Tax in Scotland—in place for the last … Continue reading →

Originally posted on A Burdz Eye View:
I am puzzled by the virulence with which Labour folk have thirled themselves to the Union.  To put it another way, I am bemused by their inherent opposition to independence.  Oh, there are…

While politics may be all about people, to the ordinary mortal just trying to get on with life, politics’ more rarified reaches can seem an evil concoction of rampant ego, unjustified ambition and the morals of snake oil salesmen. Many … Continue reading →

Originally posted on A Burdz Eye View:
There are only 18 hours of voting left in the public consultation to “name the bridge”. To show its inclusive credentials – or at least, so it doesn’t have to shoulder the blame…