Author: Kirsty Hughes
Who wants to (re)join the EU?
The UK needs a serious debate about re-joining the EU….A substantial majority now backs re-join yet Labour (and the Tories) don’t want to discuss even easing the UK’s hard Brexit, let alone what UK politics would need to look like to make a serious re-joining bid.
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Can the SNP win on July 4?
Articles, Brexit, Economy, Elections, Environment, European Union, Independence, Politics, Social democracy, UK“With a cautious, centre-right Labour party offering six lukewarm pledges, any confident, pro-EU, pro-independence, social democrat (if the SNP still is) party should be moving ahead not sinking in the polls. Can the SNP still win?”
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What about climate policies in this political crisis?
“As Humza Yousaf’s future as First Minister hangs in the balance, the more important question is what happens to the push for vital climate and biodiversity policies after the collapse of the Bute House Agreement.”
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Can the EU rise to the democratic moment?
The European Parliament’s last plenary session, before the 6-9 June elections, is next week. Is the EU rising to the democratic moment in the face of the climate and biodiversity crisis, and given all the other challenges of our times? For now, the picture looks bleak, a short-sighted shift to the right in an attempt…
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SNP, Labour and the general election
“Labour’s fiscal caution and policy U-turns, not least with Starmer dumping his £28bn green investment plan, have left the door wide open for a strong, broadly social-democratic challenge from the SNP to Labour’s policies at the general election…so why is the SNP being so cautious and over-focusing on the Tories?”
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