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Brown’s reign of terror, Police State UK – is it time for Scottish independence?
It emerged last night (29th November 2008) that Tory MPs have been so concerned about their private offices being, covertly bugged that they have regularly had them ‘swept’. This says a lot about an...
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UK police may now hack into your personal computer without a warrant
For Argyll is progressively logging the sequence of erosions of privacy and liberty which have been a marked feature of the political landscape for some time. The sum of the various actions paints an...
View ArticleScottish Government informs Westminster of its continuing opposition to ID Cards
Fergus Ewing, Community Safety Minister, has written to the UK Home Office saying that in the view of the Scottish Government the proposed ID cards represent ‘an unacceptable threat’ to civil...
View ArticleOban Passport Office one of 10 to close
The UK Government is to close 10 Passport Interview Offices, including the only one in Argyll – in Oban. The office in Stirling is also to close, leaving the population of the second largest landmass...
View ArticleLabour in melt down
At a time when dwarves cast long shadows, Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoonhave launched a letter to members of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) asking for signatures to a call for an alternative...
View ArticleWhy has UK Borders Force changed immigration rules for cruise passengers?
The UK Borders Force has, with virtually no consultation, made a significant change to the way cruise passengers in transit are treated when they come ashore at UK ports.Previously, cruise lines whose...
View ArticleUK Borders Force lets the pro-union side down big time
For Argyll had a press release on Friday from Stuart McMillan, the markedly able SNP MSP for the West of Scotland. It complained of the cancellation at short notice of a scheduled meeting between the...
View ArticleLib Dem Ministerial resignee ruins his own argument
Norman Baker is, by nature and performance, a one-man campaigning machine with a redoubtable record.Amongst his persistent highlighting of a vaariety of worthwhile but neglected or buried issues, in...
View ArticleBaker only one of a [life]raft of Lib Dem MPs jumping ship
Norman Baker may be the most high profile Liberal Democrat MP to jump ship from the UK’s coalition government – but he is by no means the only one.Two other Lib Dems have gone too – both from the...
View ArticleSlavery today – and in Scotland
In one of the most indefensible actions, in 2012 the current UK Government amended the conditions laid down in the 1998 Overseas Domestic Workers Visa provision, a conscious reform of working...
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