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Trouble ahead for man with a mountain to climb



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Published Date: 27 August 2008
By Hamish Macdonell
NOT even the most devoted of party activists could argue that the Liberal Democrats have set the heather alight in Scottish politics over the past 18 months. The party slipped quietly out of government after eight years in May last year, finishing a poor fourth in the Scottish elections with only 16 of the parliament's 129 MSPs.
Nicol Stephen, the party leader, performed well in his weekly jousts with Alex Salmond at First Minister's Questions, but otherwise failed to raise the party's profile enough to get it noticed – a deficiency that caused increasing resentment within t...



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  • Last Updated: 26 August 2008 8:33 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Liberal Democrats
 
1

Senga Jean,

27/08/2008 01:48:28
Nicol Stephen good at FMQ's? He brought up the quaintest sujects in a smarty pants way that would have made a school debating team proud. However in the real world......
2

Scotindy,

Los Angele 27/08/2008 02:30:42
Could there be a vacancy for the fifth spot in SCOTTISH POLITICS??? MMMM I think we have found the contender!!!!!!
3

MacGillicuddy,

27/08/2008 08:07:05
Tavish Scott?
Liberals?

Yawn, yawn, Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
4

Mr. Lachie Todd,

Edinburgh 27/08/2008 08:35:18
The Lib-Dems have always been restricted to a few areas of Scotland which were traditionally Liberal, like the Borders and Northern Isles.

In other areas of Scotland where they have some representation, it is because many Scots Unionist voters are no longer prepared to vote for the Labour Party, and have simply been voting for the Lib-Dems to ensure that the Scots Tories are prevented from
returning to power.
5

The Spook in Leith,

27/08/2008 09:23:52
Eh, why is the Scotsman running 2 articles on er, em, whats his name again, ah Turvy snot or summit, man i forgotten his name already.
6

Darien,

Panama 27/08/2008 09:24:16
Even the FibDums themselves don't know what they stand for any more. Policy direction changes like the wind (e.g. we now 'think' we support a referendum). They are even more useless than New Labour and that takes some doing. People in the Borders, Northern Isles etc who vote these characters in want to get a grip.
7

Darien,

Panama 27/08/2008 09:59:32
Tavish, I promise never to call you FibDums again (#6) if you do this (so good its posted again!):

Norway, a small oil-rich nation, and still discovering loads of the black gold (see article below, published today). A State-owned oil company too, keeps all the cash in house as it were. Tavish knows what an oil fund has done for Shetland. He if anyone should realise what it can do for Scotland. Does he really see benefits in Westmonster squandering all our resources on illegal wars, nuclear weapons, dodgy international deals, and fancy financial tricks in the City like Northern Crock? Naw, c'mon Tavish, take your LibDem mates into the warm waters of Independence. Do it now. You could be Scotland's Foreign Minister in a SNP-LibDem coalition! - something you could never be at UK level - not even Ming the Minger ever achieved anything like it. C'mon, go for it. Do it soon, before its too late for you and your party. Your party needs a big push and this could be it. Feel the way the wind is blawin!

"StatoilHydro finds biggest oilfield off Norway in a decade

STATOILHYDRO has discovered the largest oil field off Norway for almost a decade which will be developed in the next five years, writes Martyn Wingrove in Stavanger.

The state-run company now thinks it has more than 200m barrels of oil reserves in the Dagny-Ermintrude oil field and this is enough for StatoilHydro to consider a stand alone project.

StatoilHydro head of Norwegian exploration Tim Dodson said the North Sea field is the largest discovery in Norway since Italian firm Eni drilled into the Goliat structure in the Barents Sea in 2000.

The structure is north of StatoilHydro’s Sleipner gas production platforms, but because it is oil, there is no pipeline to transport stabilised crude to a terminal, so shuttle tankers will be needed in any development solution.

Mr Dodson said it is too early to choose a development solution, but oil field developments in this area involve floating product
8

Neil,

Glasgow 27/08/2008 10:58:37
The LudDims already have a big idea. Going for running the country 100% on windmillery irrepsective of the massive balckouts & hypothermia deaths it would cause. Big just not very good.

They have minor policies like more subsidies for bicycles, poshing up commodoty prices (yes really), cutting the speed limit to 20mph & putting political correctness officers in charge of businesses to ensure they are run according to the "expectations" of every passing "special interest group". Those aren't very good ones either.

Even good advertising won't sell a minging product.
9

donald,

glasgow 27/08/2008 11:05:55
Will he turn up in Holyrood dressed in fake Victorian Fantasy dress wi' hoerns oan his heid? He has missed the Fringe shows
10

donald,

glasgow 27/08/2008 11:07:41
Or, will he turn up dressed as Captain Britain?
11

connaughtboy,

stonehaven 27/08/2008 23:06:47
I don't have any time for the wee ginger quisling!

 

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