Thought for the week, January 15 2019
Children are growing up into a country divided and are certainly not learning the art of skilful conversation or respectful debate from our politicians.
Columnists
Tag: brexit
Letters
Letter: Defy populist politics
Since the referendum in 2016 there has been an alarming increase in both veiled and more explicit verbal abuse to EU nationals.
Kintyre
Argyll and Bute at a ‘competitive disadvantage’
MP Brendan O’Hara accused the prime minister of deliberately putting Argyll and Bute at a competitive disadvantage compared to its near neighbour, Northern Ireland.
Farming
NFUS pushes for agreement on Agriculture Bill
‘We need the very best outcomes for Scottish agriculture, so it is vital that both Holyrood and Westminster act with urgency.’
Farming
Threat to seed potato exports
The rural affairs minister claims in a no deal Brexit, Scotland would become a third country and would be unable to export seed potatoes to the EU.
Letters
Letter: SNP plans for Scotland
With Scottish exports up 12 per cent – the fastest growth in the UK – a £20m National Exports Plan this year will ensure Argyll and Bute’s businesses thrive.
Letters
Letter: Brexit will be a calamity
There are still people who support Brexit but their numbers are dwindling as a recent poll showed.
Columnists
The view from Westminster by MP Brendan O’Hara
Scotland will not forgive or forget those parties that put their hard Brexit obsessions over the national interest.
Letters
Letter: Will taxes rise to subsidise ‘Brexit dividend’?
These are set figures so it will be at least 10 years before any so-called ‘Brexit dividend’, if it were ever to materialise, is to be realised.