David Cameron – Scottish people are stupid, drunk, smelly and I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.

Ok maybe David Cameron wasn’t as blunt as the headline above, but he wasn’t far off it. When SNP MP Angus MacNeil asked the Prime Minister whether he agreed with 68% of Scots that the North Sea oil wealth should be devolved – i.e. put under the ownership and control of the Scottish Parliament, it’s [...]

We gotta fight fight fight fight, fight all the cuts

A ‘Coalition of Resistance’ is set to get off the ground in Glasgow over the next few weeks, with a view to bringing together the various strands of the anti-cuts movement in the city. SSY has been involved in initiating the group, as one of the signatories to an open letter, an edited version of which was [...]

Even Tories love the SSY blog

Batten down the hatches, the Tories and the BBC are officially aware of SSY’s website! That’s right, it’s not just the police who read our blog! In a BBC documentary following Scotland’s dear leader Alex Salmond, Michael Portillo – the former Thatcherite Tory MP who famously lost his seat in the 1997 NewLabourThingsCanOnlyGetShiter landslide and [...]

Election Liveblog

The polls are closed, and we’ll know the results of the Scottish parliament elections, and whether or not Westminister has a different shitey voting system (SO EXCITING!) by Friday morning.  SSY teams will be bringing you amazing liveblogging from the Glasgow and North East counts, with extra reporting from SSY’s secret underground complex. But this [...]

Fight Cuts at the Ballot Box and in the Streets

Polls opened this morning and votes are currently being cast in the Scottish Parliamentary election. As #2 candidate on the Scottish Socialist Party‘s Glasgow Regional List, I should be out at the polling stations, desperately trying to convince voters to put an ‘X’ beside Scotland’s only party of independence, socialism and internationalism. The bogging weather [...]

You can shove your Royal Wedding up your arse

The big day is closing up on us, with all the inevitability of a death sentence/England World Cup attempt and all the dread and misery that surrounds the two. David Cameron’s already been using the Royal Wedding as a stick to beat “politically correct” health and safety mad councils, declaring that people should be free [...]

The beginning of the end for free education

Screwing English, Welsh & Northern Irish students, screwing Scottish students (but after they graduate!), turning over education to big business, slashing spending, or relying on charitable donations – that’s the spectacularly shit choices for the future of  our universities and colleges outlined in today’s long-awaited Scottish Government review on higher education funding. It’s the first [...]

If the SNP can't even try and get a referendum, then what use are they?

Yesterday brought news that surprised nobody in Scotland: despite what they promised when they were elected three years ago, the SNP aren’t going to be able to give us a say on independence this year. After decades of arguing for independence, the SNP finally got their shot at power for the first time in 2007. [...]

Gordon Brown – in memoriam.

Well he’s finally done it, like a bullied teenager forced into taking weed by his peers, Gordon Brown has bottled it and given into pressure. He has resigned after spending only 3 years in the job he has lusted after for practically his entire political career. After taking Labour to it’s worst result since 1983, [...]

Which Fuckwit wins? You decide . . .

The polls have closed. The votes are in. Now it’s time to bring us the results of Britain’s most important election that isn’t decided by phoning a premium rate number. All the papers are projecting an SSP landslide in every seat we’re standing in, but we’re trying to keep our feet on the ground. What [...]

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