Posted by: allabouteve on: December 31, 2007
Which is exactly what Councillor Ruth Black has done by leaving Solidarity to join the Labour Group on Glasgow City Council, the first defection to our party inside the Chambers that I can remember. I would advise her not to read the vitriolic and puerile bile that’s been spewing out on some of the online comments pages [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: December 15, 2007
So – another local government funding announcement day, and we’re none the wiser as to how the city’s placed for next year’s budget, as there’s a puzzling lack of detail in the second announcement from John Swinney. So far, all we’ve had are encouraging noises about fairness and working constructively with local government, and we’ll [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: December 15, 2007
Planning issues are very much to the fore nationally, (for a variety of reasons..) but I’ll simply note that speculation about external influence over process is rife – an especially sensitive issue when ministerial objectivity is being called into question. I wouldn’t presume to know all the ins and outs of the Trump proposal, (although it is [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: December 8, 2007
Until now the titles of my blog posts have been inspired by song titles or named for dates, but tonight I was reminded of a film title – Tunes of Glory was an amazing film starring Alex Guinness and John Mills and was shot in and around Stirling Castle – about a power struggle and culture clash in [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: December 2, 2007
If a week is a long time in politics then its undoubtedly true that a day can be an eternity – how quickly things can move and battle lines can shift..as has been proved by “les evenements” (an echo of Macmillans’s quote of “events dear boy” – his response when asked what shapes political life - a remark [...]
