European independence movements sense change in the air
A new wind of change is blowing across Europe, one to match the impact of the renaissance, the industrial revolution and the formation of both the Common Market and the EU. That change is an...
View ArticleCatalan pro-independence parties agree independence roadmap
Several leading Catalan pro-independence parties have signed a preliminary agreement on a roadmap deal for Catalan independence from Spain. The parties have agreed that if they win the majority of...
View ArticleBad campaigns and bad economics mean a bad night for the union
A bad night for the union? For months Nicola Sturgeon has been saying that there won’t be a 2016 manifesto pledge for another referendum unless there is a material change in circumstances. Last night’s...
View ArticleWill Cameron’s EU gamble backfire?
The general consensus is that David Cameron offered the UK electorate a referendum on EU membership to keep his Eurosceptic back benchers in line and to slow Ukip’s progress. The EU is a great idea,...
View ArticleWhose economy is it anyway?
Some time in 2010 I was on some obscure BBC radio show talking Scottish economics and was asked if I thought we should bail out the Greek economy. I said “no – we may as well flush any moment we give...
View ArticleScottish Business Buzz (17.09.15)
Business for Scotland today welcomes the survey results from the FSB, showing 70% of Scottish business want to maintain Scotland’s EU membership. The FSB survey largely mirrors our own more positive...
View ArticleThe pros and cons of an EU Brexit (mostly cons)
Refugees, immigration, the Euro, Greece and the in/out referendum, The Catalan pro-independence majority, the EU is making headlines. It’s getting a bad press and, let’s be honest, it fully deserves...
View ArticleNew Poll: 82% of SMEs want UK to remain in the EU
A snap poll carried out by Business for Scotland, generating 527 responses from our members between Friday 9th and Tuesday 13th October 2015, has found 82% support from Scottish SME’s for the UK to...
View ArticleTime to strengthen Scotland’s economic foundations before the next shock
Scotland’s political parties are back on a war footing and preparing for next years Scottish elections. Holyrood 2016 will be fought against a background of uncertainty like never before, the people...
View ArticleTHE CBI jinx every political campaign it supports
THE CBI seem to jinx every political campaign it supports. Look, its not rocket science if you run a business network that represents member companies. Before you take a stance on a highly political...
View ArticleIF the EU didn’t exist you would have to invent it
IF the EU didn’t exist you would have to invent it. For most of recorded history, European tribes then nations have battled one another for territory in Europe and for control of economic assets all...
View ArticleHow YES can win a 2020 independence referendum
IT SEEMS to me the social and political situation is evolving to open the door to an early independence referendum, possibly as soon as September 2020. Firstly, the promise of more powers, so crucial...
View Article2016 a year for the new economics
THIS will be the year when the new political and economic enlightenment that has been slowly emerging will gain traction, becoming part of the mainstream debate not just in Scotland, where we are ahead...
View ArticleWill Cameron’s EU Gamble End the UK?
LATE last year, Downing Street started floating the idea of an early EU referendum with the press – toe-in-the-water type stuff. Since mid-December, rumours of a June referendum came to the fore and in...
View ArticleScottish Business Buzz 27.01.16
The biggest entrepreneurship event ever to place in Europe, with over 200 events taking place over the continent, Start up Europe Week, is coming to Glasgow. From 1st-5th February volunteers are...
View ArticleUnionist policy failures gift a hat-trick of opportunities to the SNP
THIS week has seen a catalogue of unionist policy failures that have gifted a hat-trick of opportunities to the SNP – if they are brave enough to take advantage. Languishing in the polls, Scottish...
View ArticleScottish Business Buzz (10.02.16)
University plans massive West End redevelopment The University of Glasgow has unveiled plans costing £1bn to transform the West End of Glasgow into a ‘museum quarter’ creating thousands of jobs. The...
View ArticleBrexit would give Westminster more power over Scotland
AS THE EU referendum looms close it’s plain to see that the British nationalist movement that wants to withdraw from Europe is a negative one underpinned by mistrust of foreigners and a belief in the...
View ArticleBrexit won’t stop TTIP but can a better deal be negotiated?
TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, is a bilateral trade deal being negotiated between America and the EU. New trade deals are negotiated on our behalf by the EU on a regular...
View ArticleBfS dismantles Brexit business case in TV debate
Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp from Business for Scotland debated the business merits of the EU and the Common Market on STV’s Scotland Tonight programme. Gordon points out that the EU allows easy and...
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