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Author: Jim O'Neill

Grassroots Labour Opinion

Let’s NOT talk about Brexit

December 19, 2018 Jim O'Neill

In Jim O’Neill’s last missive before Christmas he reminds us that aside from Brexit there is a list of serious political problems to be solved, and ministers in both London

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Grassroots Labour Opinion

May in Fantasy Brexitland

November 16, 2018November 16, 2018 Jim O'Neill

Jim O’Neill gives his assessment of where the Brexit mess leaves Theresa May, Nicola Sturgeon and the fortunes of the Labour Party.   The danger of writing a Brexit blog

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Grassroots Labour Opinion

Swinney no more

September 24, 2018September 24, 2018 Jim O'Neill

Jim O’Neill responds to the extraordinary behaviour of John Swinney and the SNP following their defeat in parliament on primary school testing.   Now we have it finally. The SNP

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Grassroots Labour Opinion

GERS spin doesn’t work

August 24, 2018August 24, 2018 Jim O'Neill

Jim O’Neill says the SNP spin over this week’s GERS figures can’t mask the blunt reality they show.    No, I’m not talking about a football team from Sunny Govan,

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Grassroots Labour Opinion

Happy birthday, NHS

July 5, 2018 Jim O'Neill

Jim O’Neill assesses the health of the NHS in Scotland as we celebrate its 70th birthday.   It is now 70 years since Nye Bevan had to “stuff doctors’ mouths

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Grassroots Labour Opinion

“Sorry, we can’t find an ambulance”

June 15, 2018 Jim O'Neill

Jim O’Neill returns from Oz to find the same faces overseeing the same failures in Scottish public services, and thinks New Zealand may have a better example to offer us

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Grassroots Labour Opinion

Politics down under – not for the faint-hearted

May 23, 2018 Jim O'Neill

Jim O’Neill sends a missive from the southern hemisphere, highlighting sharp differences in how politics is conducted firth of Scotland.   Spending a month in Australia, and being a political

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