David Linden

“It’s a massive challenge that our officers are facing,”

Andy Burnham speaks of a vague plan in ten years' time — people can't wait a decade for Andy Burnham to act.

It won’t surprise anyone in Scotland that this Labour UK Government is presiding over the worst fall in living standards in modern history - people only need to look at their energy bills or prices at the fuel pumps to see that.

This is yet more misery for people living in our energy-rich land - bills are through the roof yet we produce far more energy than we can hope to use. It doesn't add up.

Scotland is being short-changed by the BBC – that is clear as day.

The sight of a masked mob running through the streets of the east end, chanting anti-migrant slurs, is deeply unsettling to our community.

It is disgrace that most Scots missed out on the opportunity of seeing our athletes compete because the Labour UK Government sat on their hands.

You can be sure they wouldn't have been so indifferent if the Games were on the banks of the Thames rather than the Clyde.

Glaswegians should not have to fear violence from a small racist minority.

The far-right agitators responsible for yesterday’s racist violence do not represent the people of Glasgow or Scotland.

Glasgow is a welcoming city and those who choose to make their lives here are valued members of our society.

Westminster has failed Scotland and no one is more part of that London based Westminster establishment than Douglas Alexander – through a fresh start with independence, we can build a wealthier Scotland anew, free of broken, Brexit Britain.

Scotland doesn’t need this servant of Westminster having any say over our future – if Andy Burnham is serious about where power lies on these islands then his first instruction to Douglas Alexander should be to respect the democratic will…

Douglas Alexander masterminded the Labour Party’s worst ever defeat in Scotland, sat silent as thousands of oil and gas jobs were lost in Scotland and was shamed over disgraceful message exchanges with Peter Mandelson – he pulled the wool…