For A' That 22 - Labouring Away
Apr 21, 2013 ·
58m 9s
For episode 22 of the For A' That podcast Andrew and I were joined by New Statesman contributor James Maxwell and Huffington Post blogger and Labour Party member Andrew Smith....
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For episode 22 of the For A' That podcast Andrew and I were joined by New Statesman contributor James Maxwell and Huffington Post blogger and Labour Party member Andrew Smith.
The Labour party was the focus of a large part of the discussion. More specifically, the couple of interviews that Johann Lamont did this week and her speech at the conference. This became a more general discussion on some of the woes of that party in the post-devolution era.
We also discussed their new Truth Team and what that says about politics in this country. Some of us felt this had a kind of Orwellian overtone to it, others felt it represented the Americanisation of politics in Scotland and the UK and is reminiscent of American style attack ads.
Devo-somethings were also a topic. With the three Better Together parties now all backing some form of further devolution, will they be able to come up with a unified plan. Furthermore, would further devolution damage or in fact strengthen the SNP's hand.
Back on Labour, is the idea of more devolution causing a problem between the Westminster party and the Holyrood one?
LINKS
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/andrew-smith/
http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/james_maxwell
https://twitter.com/andrew_graeme
https://twitter.com/PeatWorrier
https://twitter.com/jamesmaxwell86
lallandspeatworrier.blogspot.co.uk
http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com
https://twitter.com/mgreenwell
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The Labour party was the focus of a large part of the discussion. More specifically, the couple of interviews that Johann Lamont did this week and her speech at the conference. This became a more general discussion on some of the woes of that party in the post-devolution era.
We also discussed their new Truth Team and what that says about politics in this country. Some of us felt this had a kind of Orwellian overtone to it, others felt it represented the Americanisation of politics in Scotland and the UK and is reminiscent of American style attack ads.
Devo-somethings were also a topic. With the three Better Together parties now all backing some form of further devolution, will they be able to come up with a unified plan. Furthermore, would further devolution damage or in fact strengthen the SNP's hand.
Back on Labour, is the idea of more devolution causing a problem between the Westminster party and the Holyrood one?
LINKS
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/andrew-smith/
http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/james_maxwell
https://twitter.com/andrew_graeme
https://twitter.com/PeatWorrier
https://twitter.com/jamesmaxwell86
lallandspeatworrier.blogspot.co.uk
http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com
https://twitter.com/mgreenwell
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Scot Independence Podcast
11 years ago
A good point.
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Brian Powell
11 years ago
During the chat about Devolution no one picked up on the fact that in the event of a No vote, any further discussion about Devolution will not be a Scottish one. The rest of the UK will be involved. Also whatever the Unionist politicians in Holyrood say now, it is really down to the Westminster Parties what is acceptable, or not(at all).
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