2012 January | Tory Hoose

Another Labour Defection

January 31, 2012 Neil Benny 2 Comments

Yet another Labour defection hits their re-election campaign as the Labour Parties’ crusade to get rid of the “dead wood” in their town hall teams gathers pace. This time, Glasgow Pollock Councillor, Irfan Rabbani has defected from the Labour Party to the SNP, having had a road to Silverburn conversion on the issue of independence.

SNP losing debate on independence

January 31, 2012 Tory Hoose 9 Comments

Despite the pro-union campaign still not getting off to a start, the SNP have found a real lack of support in their independence policy. What must be more worrying for the SNP is that there is a significant proportion of SNP voters who have rejected their flagship policy. Salmond wants the question to be “Do

The Declaration of Arbroath

January 30, 2012 Tory Hoose 27 Comments

Stewart Whyte teaches history at Aboyne Academy. He is a Scottish Conservative activist in the Northeast of Scotland. In recent weeks the Press and Journal and the Courier newspapers have published letters from Nationalists on the Declaration of Arbroath as a reason for a Yes vote in the Referendum. If the Referendum results in

News Headlines 30/01/12

January 30, 2012 Tory Hoose 2 Comments

It has been the breaking story over the last 12 hours or so : RBS chief Stephen Hester is forced to give up £1m bonus. Labour’s hypocrisy over the matter is frankly staggering and more is sure to be played out in the media over the coming days. I’m Nat wanting to break up the

86% agree on local government campaign Directors

January 29, 2012 Rob Murray 2 Comments

In November 2011, one of the very first announcements Ruth Davidson made when elected as leader was the appointments of John Lamont MSP, and Cllr Graham Simpson as co-directors of the local Government campaign. To some this may have seen a rather strange combination however if you look at the two of them and their

Sunday Supplement 29/01/12

January 29, 2012 Tory Hoose 6 Comments

Salmond in ‘fantasy land’ over tax plans, says former adviser. Alex Salmond’s vision of an independent Scotland attracting global investors with ultra-low corporation tax has been dismissed as “a fantasy” by Professor John Kay, one of his former economic advisers. I’ll lead independence fight against Alex Salmond, says Alistair Darling The former Chancellor says he

Cameron’s alternative referendum question

January 27, 2012 Tory Hoose 8 Comments

With news that David Cameron may table an alternative question for the Scottish independence referendum after election experts warned that Alex Salmond’s version is “loaded and biased”, ToryHoose have been forwarded a copy of what the Prime Minister’s Independence Referendum question paper proposal could look like: David Cameron however has now got until Autumn 2014 to brush up on his Scots

Can the SNP survive the independence referendum?

January 27, 2012 Andrew Hardie 26 Comments

The SNP have been around for over 80 years, they are a motley band of individuals with one shared ideology, that of ripping Scotland away from their brothers and sisters in the rest of Great Britain. To do this through democratic means, they have to win a referendum. However, that referendum has become something of

News Headlines 27/01/2012

January 27, 2012 Tory Hoose 2 Comments

Alex Salmond: ‘Chancellor would bite our hands off to keep the pound’ Alex Salmond insisted that a UK chancellor would be “biting our hands off” for an independent Scotland to keep the pound, as he told MSPs that 67 nations across the globe shared their currencies in the same way. Mr Salmond used First Minister’s

Monthly Archives: January 2012

Another Labour Defection

SNP losing debate on independence

The Declaration of Arbroath

News Headlines 30/01/12

86% agree on local government campaign Directors

Sunday Supplement 29/01/12

Cameron’s alternative referendum question

Can the SNP survive the independence referendum?

News Headlines 27/01/2012

‘Schools Out for Summer’ – An Alternative End of Term Report and Personal View by Jim Terras

Politicians need to start taking the monarchy seriously as an issue- for the good of Scottish political opinion – by Alex Shilling

Conservative Investment vs SNP cuts by Chris Donnelly

Another new Editor joins Tory Hoose

Style over substance – Duncan Stewart

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