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Author: Alastair Osborne

Grassroots Labour Opinion

The Bulgarian Policeman ties his shoelaces

January 23, 2017 Alastair Osborne

Alastair Osborne says the SNP’s hubris is breathtaking in its scale, but the cracks are appearing and its nemesis will surely follow.   Shostakovich’s son Maxim used to perform a sketch

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Grassroots Labour Opinion

East Ayrshire’s ‘Eden’?

October 10, 2016 Alastair Osborne

Ayrshire Labour activist Alastair Osborne looks to Cornwall’s Eden Project as inspiration for a world-class answer to the long-discussed problem of restoring opencast mines in East Ayrshire.   The Scottish Labour

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Grassroots Labour Opinion

From Bevin to the EU referendum

January 11, 2016 Alastair Osborne

Alastair Osborne is Chair of Carrick Cumnock and Doon Valley CLP. He says our Labour values tell us to support the campaign for the UK to remain in the EU.   I

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Don’t take tips from me on leadership elections

June 10, 2015 Alastair Osborne

Alastair Osborne, Chair of Carrick Cumnock and Doon Valley CLP, writes in a personal capacity about our upcoming leadership choices and how we’ll make them.   Don’t read this if you

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They wouldn’t, would they?

November 18, 2014 Alastair Osborne

Alastair Osborne points out that the SNP’s pledge not to let the Tories in crumbles under scrutiny.   The SNP would never ever put the Tories into government. Would they?

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An internationalist party again

October 16, 2014 Alastair Osborne

Alastair Osborne, Scottish Officer of the Labour Campaign for International Development, writes here in a personal capacity about what our real priorities should be on international issues.   The Scottish Government’s submission

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