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'Bring on' referendum - Alexander
BBC News, 4th May 2008 - Scottish Labour Party leader Wendy Alexander has called on the Scottish Government to "bring on" a referendum on independence.
Labour blocked Reid’s role on body reviewing Holyrood
Sunday Herald, 27 April 2008 - THE UK Labour party vetoed the appointment of former presiding officer George Reid to the new body reviewing devolution. Reid, who used to be an SNP MSP, was thought to be too "nationalist" for a position on the Constitutional Commission.
A year on, Salmond's charm gets stronger
The Observer, 27 April 2008 - As the First Minister prepares to celebrate his first 12 months in power, Neil Drysdale finds that even loyal Labour voters now share his vision
Westminster 'withholding £1.2bn'
Carrick Gazzette, 14th April 2008 -The SNP has accused the Westminster Government of behaving "entirely unreasonably", claiming it was proposing to withhold more than £1.2 billion of funds from Scotland.
SNP hails increased support for Scottish independence
The Herald, 10th April 2008 - SNP leaders today hailed a poll which showed support for independence had increased, with two fifths of Scots now in favour of ending the Union.
Referendum Launch
Dundee Courier , 7th April 2008 - A campaign for a referendum on Scottish independence had its north-east launch in Dundee on Saturday.
McLeish backs call for vote on independence
Scotland on Sunday , 6th April 2008 - FORMER Labour First Minister Henry McLeish has said Scotland's future should eventually be resolved with a referendum on independence.
Gordon Brown’s Cabinet ministers 'discussed referendum' on Scottish independence
The Times, 31st March 2008 - Senior members of Gordon Brown’s Cabinet have discussed the idea of holding an immediate referendum on Scottish independence, but have ruled it out on the ground that such a move would only play into the hands of the SNP.
Tycoon in independence vote call
BBC News, 30th March 2008 -Scotland's richest man has called for an immediate independence referendum to allow the country to move on.
SSP urges independence referendum
Deeside Piper, 30th March 2008 - Scottish Socialist Party leader Colin Fox has called for an early referendum on independence.
Salmond calls for referendum on Scottish independence
The Scotsman, 26th March 2008 - FIRST Minister Alex Salmond today challenged opposition parties to come up with an alternative to independence that could be put to the public in a referendum.
Holyrood review will exclude independence
Tayside Courier, 26th March 2008 - PRO-UNIONIST opposition parties at Holyrood yesterday signed a blank cheque for a review of devolution that will not even consider the issue of Scottish independence.
Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman Says England Doesn't Care About Scots Independence
Daily Record, 23rd March 2008 - And the Newsnight presenter claimed Scots should "snap out of" the belief that people down south worry about the break-up of the Union.
McLeish backs SNP debate on independence
The Scotsman, 23rd March 2008 - FORMER Labour first minister Henry McLeish will this week give his support to the SNP's "national conversation" on independence for Scotland.
Mass Petition Planned For Independence Referendum
Swans.com, 10th March 2008 – Joe Middleton “Recently I attended an international advisers meeting in Barcelona to help organise the next CONSEU (Conference of Stateless Nations in Europe) and it occurred to me that Scotland has a great many advantages in its drive towards independence.”
Scottish or British – a question of allegiance
The Scotsman, 12th March 2008 – a proposal to make Britain's teenagers pledge an oath of allegiance to the Queen was immediately dismissed by Alex Salmond, the First Minister, as "Monty Python-esque"
Role of the third sector in Scotlands Future
e-gov monitor, 12th March 2008 – Charities and voluntary groups have a vital role to play in determining Scotland's constitutional future, representatives were told today.
Sir Menzies reveals Brown's secret talks on pact to deny SNP power
The Scotsman, 5th March 2008 - GORDON Brown held two secret meetings with Sir Menzies Campbell during last year's Scottish election campaign in an attempt to forge a new Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition and keep the SNP out of power, it emerged last night.
Professor calls for update in attitudes to Scottish independence
The Herald, 7th March 2008 - The cause of Scottish independence needs to ditch 19th-century ideas of nationhood and join "a springtime of victorious dwarves" in which smart, small nations take the lead, according to one of the leading thinkers on Scottish nationalism.
Connery Confident over Scottish Independence
PR Inside, 25th February 2008 - Actor SIR SEAN CONNERY is confident his native Scotland will soon have independence from the British Isles.
Kosovo Inspires Independence Daze
Washington Times, 25th February 2008 - Kosovo's declaration of independence last week raises all those questions and more. For starters: Why is statehood OK for some people but frowned on for others? After all, isn't the right to self-determination the essence of democracy itself?
Scotland may lose some devolved powers, claims Brown
The Journal, 26th February 2008 - The Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that a review into devolution could actually result in the loss of some of Scotland's existing powers as well as the increase in others.
Berwickers Ready to Return to Scotland First Time in 500 Years
Bloomberg, 20th February 2008 - Berwickers are backing a motion by a member of the Scottish Parliament who says the town should return to Scottish control for the first time in 500 years. While conceding that the border is unlikely to be redrawn, locals say the debate spotlights how they are neglected by the U.K. government.
Serbian Independence
The Times, 18th February 2008 - Gun shots, car horns and firecrackers rang out across the snowy streets here yesterday as Kosovo declared itself the newest nation in the world.
Would Indepenedence Be a Velvet Divorce From UK
The Herald, 18th February 2008 - UN peacekeeping forces were moving into position last night as the inhabitants of Berwick declared independence from England. Secessionists are insisting that opinion polls confirmed that the majority of the population wished to leave at the earliest opportunity and become part of recently-independent Scotland. Amid scenes of jubilation in the border town, there are anxieties about the fate of the remaining ethnic English still living in the disputed zone.
I'll launch legal bid to take Berwick back into Scotland, says Salmond
The Scotsman, 18th February 2008 - ALEX Salmond would start legal moves to bring Berwick back under Scottish control if the town's residents voted to leave England in a referendum, it emerged yesterday.
Powers Struggle
The Sunday Herald , 17th Feburary 2008 - The Sunday Herald Debate
Actress Joins Storm Over Constitution
The Herald , 15th Feburary 2008 - Elaine C Smith, the actress, waded into the row over Scotland's constitutional reform yesterday by accusing David Cairns, the Scotland Office Minister, of failing to "keep pace" with the country's wishes.
Salmond casts net wide for ideas to build a Celtic Lion
Scotsman, 14th Feburary 2008 -HOLYROOD Cabinet ministers are being sent on international fact-finding missions as part of the next stage of the "national conversation" on independence.
Stop playing games on constitutional change
Scotsman , 11th Feburary 2008 - EXACTLY what is going on with the Constitutional Convention that was mooted last year by the three Unionist parties at Holyrood?
Scots MP in bid to ditch our money
Sunday Mail , 10th Feburary 2008 -A SCOTS MP sparked controversy yesterday by calling for Scottish banknotes to be ditched.
If at first you don’t succeed, try to change Barnett again... and fail
The Herald, 8th Feburary 2008 -The Whitehall funding formula for Scotland needs to be overhauled soon or Scottish independence might happen via the back door with the English demanding separation, a senior peer and former Treasury minister suggested yesterday.
Scottish Notes Under Threat
Economist , 7th Feburary 2008 -the British Treasury has launched a raid on this iconic lolly. Scottish and Northern Irish banks (unlike their English rivals) are still allowed to print money, which is worth exactly the same as Bank of England cash. But a new plan would make them back their notes more fully.
Power struggle has barely begun
The Scotsman , 31st January 2008 -IT'S two months since Wendy Alexander first announced plans for a cross-party commission to look at new powers for the Scottish Parliament.
Constitutional powers question for PM
The Herald, 28th January 2008 -Gordon Brown was last night urged by the Conservatives at Westminster to make clear publicly where he stands on the Scottish Constitutional Commission's "love-in" about giving more powers to Holyrood.
Give the people a voice – and restore their faith in politics
The Scotsman, 24th January 2008 -THE Scottish Parliament will today witness a historic event in Scotland's constitutional development, with the launch of a "people's petition" to hold a referendum on Scottish independence.
Britain Seeks Its Essence, and Finds Punch Lines
The New York Times, 26th January 2008 -Detractors spread the rumor that the government was looking not for a considered statement, but for a snappy, pithy “liberté, égalité, fraternité”-style slogan that it could plaster across government buildings in a kind of branding exercise.
Equitable No More
The Hindu, 26th January 2008 -“I have never seen such a polarised U.K. economy. The rich are so very, very rich... But the poor are getting poorer.”
Clouding history to muddy waters of independence debate
The Scotsman, 19th January 2008 -THE question of Scottish independence raises big questions. What happens to the nuclear weapons? How much of the oil does Scotland get? What happens to the national debt and, as important, assets: things like the contents of museums and embassies around the world? Can Berwick Rangers continue to play in Scottish football?
Unionist allies plan agenda for change
The Herald, 16th January 2008 - The constitutional commission planned by the three pro-union parties to set out changes to Scottish devolution could be operating within two months, according to those close to discussions yesterday.
More power is music to Alex Salmond's ears
The Telegraph, 16th January 2008 -
As they trip gaily on in their bid to dance to Alex Salmond's tune and wrest more powers from Westminster to Holyrood, the founding fathers - and mothers - of the Wendy Commission are ignoring one important fact: their plans must bring a referendum on Scotland's constitutional future that much closer.
Scottish? English? Library Thinks Twice
The Washington Post, 15th January 2008 -
The stroke of a pen at the Library of Congress, which rebranded 700 years of Scottish literary tradition as "English literature", has in recent weeks generated a spluttering uproar here.
Unionist ‘summit’ in bid to thwart SNP
The Herald , 15th January 2008 - Leading politicians from Holyrood and Westminster will gather behind closed doors in London today for their first meeting to discuss the prospect of giving the Scottish Parliament more powers.
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