Legal bid to oust Carmichael as MP - BBC News. Campaigners have begun a legal attempt to overturn the election of the former cabinet minister Alistair Carmichael as the MP for Orkney and Shetland.
The Lib Dem MP has faced calls to resign over the leak of a memo which suggested SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon wanted David Cameron as prime minister. A petition was lodged at the Court of Session in Edinburgh in the name of four islanders. They raised more than £40,000 through the internet to pay their legal costs. @MackieJonathan mutual backslapping by the Scottish Nasty Party. Don't you just love the hypocrisy and humbug from these small minded thugs. Pouring oil on troubled waters. “Just go on the radio, play it all with a dead bat, fob them off with some bland waffle and kill the story”, the Lib Dems will have said to Sir Malcolm Bruce this morning.
So that went well. Of course, the state broadcaster covered the story too: Hmm. Just don’t forget you ever knew me. Lib Dem efforts to save Carmichael descend into farce... You really know that Alistair Carmichael's political future is hanging by a thread when quite literally the only reason the Lib Dems can think of for him still being an MP is that "we must show forgiveness".
Here's a selection of today's splendidly comical comments from the bunker over at Liberal Democrat Voice - Willie Rennie : "As a liberal I believe that people deserve a second chance. I hope fair minded people would agree that Alistair Carmichael should be given that second chance. " French-born SNP MSP: it's a democratic disgrace that I can't vote in EU referendum (From Herald Scotland) A French-born politician elected to represent a region of Scotland has said it is a democratic disgrace that he will not be allowed to vote in the referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union.
Christian Allard, SNP MSP for North East Scotland, will be disqualified under Prime Minister David Cameron's plan to use the general election franchise for voters who will be eligible in the referendum. The decision would ban 1.5 million EU nationals resident in the UK, including almost 90,000 EU citizens who were eligible to vote in last year's Scottish independence referendum, from having a say. Mr Allard added: "EU nationals across Scotland make incredible contributions to their communities and to our national life, pay taxes and contribute to the economy - and for their voices to be silenced on this crucial issue by an out- of-touch Tory government pandering to its own right wing and to Ukip would be nothing less than a democratic disgrace. Alistair Carmichael's old words come back to haunt him as pressure grows to quit. PRESSURE continued to mount on shamed former Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael to resign as an MP last night after a newspaper column from 2010 came to light in which he stressed the need for members of Parliament to “tell the truth”.
The SNP said the Liberal Democrats’ sole remaining MP in Scotland should abide by his own code and stand down as MP for Orkney and Shetland. He had also supported an Early Day Motion on the right of recall for MPs who are found guilty of serious wrongdoing to stand down and face a by-election. The developments came as a former leader of the SNP questioned the delay in publication of Sir Jeremy Heywood’s inquiry in the false memo Carmichael leaked about Nicola Sturgeon’s conversation with the French ambassador. The naked liar. I was driving along under a lovely London sky yesterday and heard Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s interview on BBC Radio 4’s PM (package starts at 33.26).
As it progressed, it became clear that Sturgeon was turning in one of the best political performances on a radio programme ever. I say that as a Labour supporter, albeit one who’s belatedly grasping just how good she and her party folk are. (PM, BBC Radio 4, 22 May 2015). It’s for you, and then the pundits, to reflect on her words and style. SCOT goes POP!: Will the Spectator apologise for continuing the lies about Nicola Sturgeon? Independent MSP condemns MP’s ‘deliberate attack on a fellow politician’ In case you’ve been napping. Resign as an MP. Petition · Resign as an MP · #carmichaelmustgo is now trending in #Glasgow. UPDATE: Sturgeon says Carmichael should consider position as MP after memo revelations.
The former Scottish secretary has been forced to admit he was behind a controversial leaked memo about Nicola Sturgeon during the general election campaign.
Alistair Carmichael had backed the leaking of the report, which claimed that the First Minister had said she wanted David Cameron to remain as Prime Minister. The memo reported the comment had been made in conversation between Ms Sturgeon and the French Ambassador. Don't forget to vote on @Eurovisionista's web app! No installation required! Vote here #Eurovision. Sitting uncomfortably. Sitting uncomfortably. Are you sitting comfortably?
This past week has given us a few significant news stories. A touchy and beautiful song by #ROM. Very well done! #Eurovision. That can be my next tweet. Gizmodo Dreamlike.
Semi-sensical. Edinburgh, Canonmills, Royal Gymnasium. The Ponsonby Post - Scottish Labour never existed and Murphy will ensure it never will. Bella Caledonia independence – autonomy – self-determination. A month is a long time in politics.
Lesley Riddoch on the Jim Murphy debacle. So Jim Murphy has gone. Like the grinning cat from Alice in Wonderland, he will take time to disappear completely from the Scottish political scene. But no matter how long it takes for that trademark grin to disappear, there’s no mistaking the utter humiliation of Saturday’s vote. Meta Ramsay, Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale. A contemporary of Sir John Scarlett, the chief of SIS from 2004 to 2009, she was short-listed to succeed an earlier MI6 chief - Sir Colin McColl, though at that time, she lost out to Sir David Spedding, left the Service and moved into full-time politics.
She was made a life peer as Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale, of Langside in the City of Glasgow on 11 October 1996.[1] She is the Lords Chair of The Labour Friends of Israel. Between 1998 and 2001, Ramsay was Baroness in Waiting (Whip); Spokesperson of the Scottish Office; Spokesperson of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; and Spokesperson of Culture, Media and Sports; in the Lords. In 2002 she was appointed Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords a position she still holds (one Deputy Speaker from a panel of 20 to 25 Deputy Speakers preside over debates when the Lord Speaker is not present).[2][3] If Labour loses Scotland, the Union will be done for - Telegraph. Scottish Nationalists rally to defence of unlikely hero Murphy. Shootin fae the Shin: Ran Tan Waltz. When ye bide up a stair ye get tae ken a lot aboot fowk.
It wis nae secret up oor close that Mary wis a bit o a drinker. Ye wid catch her gaun fer her messages at fower in the efternin. Far too late tae get fresh fish ah wid say. No that ah wid say it tae her face mind, ye widnae speak tae her then, no afore she'd been doon the street, or she wid bite yer face aff. She aye had her heid doon an wid hurry by ye.
We'd heard a whisper right enough, some weeks back, that she'd been seen hingin aboot doon the fit o' Leith Wynd yin nicht. Well, if that wis her game it worked a treat right enough, mair than she wis bankin oan ah expect, for ah doubt she coulda foreseen whit wis comin. Am hearing increasing chatter about moves to merge the Scottish Tories and Scottish Liberals or even just take-over the Liberals brand wise. As Others See Us: Future of British state in doubt as SNP grab world headlines. Cartoons might be crude. Murphy refusing to resign. Goodnight Scottish Labour. "Further devolution for Scotland is ready to go," says George Osborne #GE2015. Here's the best photo of #GE2015 so far #ExitPolls. Oot ye go! #snp. General Election Results. Event - Live. Breaking: YouGov exit poll - CON 284 MPs, LAB 263, LIBS 31, SNP 48, UKIP 2, PLAID 3, GREEN 1.