‘Mandates, Mandates, Roll Up For Your Mandates….Plenty To Choose From’
The Conservative Party Has No Mandate In Scotland
(***Some Mandates may have extra terms and conditions!)
Short Commentary by Solon Scotland Continue reading
Editorials/Opinion
McCrone Report is Trending (Article By Solon Scotland)
This week the McCrone report has come to prominent news after being printed in full by The Scottish National Newspaper
‘Hushing Up’ of The McCrone Report Raises Fundamental Issues about Westminster Government in Relation to Scotland
The report was commissioned by The British Government in 1974 but it was ‘hushed up’ and unreleased in the public domain for around 30 years by successive Conservative and Labour Governments in the ‘national interest’ and because of its undoubted effect it could have on the validity of an independent Scottish economy.
This is short commentary piece on the Report by Solon Scotland (Scottish Politics News Commentator) Continue reading
Brexit Deadlock; Rule Britannia rhetoric is making the waves bigger?
Opinion Piece – Solon Scotland – Political Commentator
Watching ‘The Brexit Never Ending Negotiating Story’, it never ceases to astonish how many of those in power who support Brexit (and presumably well educated) resort to hyperbole of Rule Britannia, Lead The World, We Won the War blah blah blah, over actual facts and common sense? Continue reading
BBC in Big Brother Enforcement Move?
News Article Opinion by Solon Scotland
BBC Steps into Dangerous Territory as Two Prominent Scottish Independence Platforms are affected by You Tube Copyright Violation Complaints.
Two pro independence on line platforms have seen their You Tube channels either shut down or suspended this weekend in an apparent copyright complaint made by the BBC that news items have been uploaded and breach BBC copyright. Continue reading
Scotrail is in crisis….according to the mainstream media that is!
Editorial Post – Article Date: (23.11.16)
Scotrail is in crisis?….well at least according to the mainstream media it is!
The actual statistical facts don’t support a sudden monumental crisis which merited the blanket coverage but let’s look at how major media in Scotland portrayed the events.
What merits a crisis for a start? Is it figures and data? …Well no, in this instance (and many others) it seems, it’s the mainstream media who decide what a crisis is. The actual facts would appear to be less relevant than the story angle or the headline!