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I miss the good old days of UGS where I would in real time point out the errors in police statements around such incidents as the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes. After the student protests last week there were a couple of gems in the news. The most indicative single article though is this […]

Hi Jim, When you meet with DC Thomson to discuss their slashing of jobs will you be bringing up their Lets Get Dundee Working Campaign? Recession recovery to take longer in Dundee Council backing Courier jobs campaign Surely a local company shedding 350 staff is ideal for being a focus of their campaign? They should […]

Reply to Freedom Flotilla letter David Martin MEP – Labour First reply from Jim McGovern’s secretary Dear Alan, Thank you for your email. Unfortunately I am unable to attend the rally in Edinburgh tomorrow, but I share your outrage over recent events on the Gaza-bound flotilla, and fully agree with the points you raised in […]

Reply to Freedom Flotilla letter Jim McGovern – Labour First reply from Jim McGovern’s secretary Thank you for your message which I shall pass to Jim McGovern. Jane O’Neill

I wrote the following letter to all my representatives yesterday and look forward to some interesting responses. MPs: Jim McGovern (Labour) MSPs: Joe FitzPatrick (SNP), Alison McInnes (Liberal Democrat), Richard Baker (Labour), Alex Johnstone (Conservative), Nanette Milne (Conservative), Marlyn Glen (Labour), Nigel Don (SNP), Maureen Watt (SNP) MEPs : Alyn Smith (SNP), David Martin (Labour), […]

So the election is tomorrow, what’s been happenning in Dundee West. Well as of now my only contact has been 3 hand delivered Lib Dem leaftets and a personally addressed SNP letter. The three Lib Dem leaflets all contained their usual bunch of lies, damn lies and irrelevant and massaged statistics. A letter from the […]

You can tell it’s an election because Labour and the SNP showed their face in the city centre today, so probably time for an info post. Well, unless there are any last minute changes or anyone withdrawing at the last minute (ooh err missus) the line up for the election in Dundee West looks like: […]

I hadn’t noticed But Stewart Hosie (MP for Dundee East) voted for the Digital Economy Bill meaning that 100% of the SNP MPs who voted supported it. I have written to Jim Barrie (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the SNP in Dundee West) asking for his view on the bill (email sent on 15th April). Jim […]

Last night was the final straw. Having spent several years as a member of the payroll vote he eventually started being a constituency MP. He voted for authoritarian measures like storing massive amount of information on citizens and then tried to block information about where he has been on taxpayers money using privacy as his […]

Friday was a special occassion. The 200th episode of the excellent Boagworld podcast. To celebrate, rather than record the usual show of about 1hour the hosts organised a 12 hour spectacular pulling together some of the brightest and most interesting people in the web industry. There were experts on coding and design, CSS and CMS, […]