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This was first posted on Facebook on 15th January 2021, with support from my Ko-Fi network. Richard Leonard, the leader of Scottish Labour, resigned today: his deputy, Jackie Baillie, will take over to lead Scottish Labour to inevitable defeat in the May 2021 Holyrood elections. To recap, for those not familar in detail with recent Scottish history: we had an independence referendum in November…

Sturgeon’s pledge on nursery education slated

Opposition politicians rounded on the First Minister over her plans for an extra qualified teacher or childcare graduate in every nursery class from 2018. Ms Sturgeon revealed details of her plans just days after the SNP’s record on nursery education came under fire from Scotland’s largest teaching union. The Educational Institute for Scotland (EIS) revealed the number of registered teachers…

The best moment during the final Scottish Debate - it's polling day in Scotland today -which was otherwise rather drab and repetitive.

I'll need to give some context - during the start of the election campaign by the Scottish Labour Party, their leader Ian Gray was hounded in the middle of Glasgow by anti-cuts protesters. For whatever reason, Gray and his entourage retreated into one of the wonderful Subway sandwich shops. This is perhaps going to be the incident that the 2011 Scottish Election campaign will be remembered for.

So, during the end of a sluggish, hard-fought television debate, a local Scottish man (they were in Glasgow), asked Gray "First off, could you recommend me a good sandwich?", before asking a serious question about Labour policy.