Ungagged!

Richie Venton Ungagged! Ep 4 Things WILL get better if we fight for socialism NOW!

Richie Venton, the Scottish Socialist Party Trades Union Organiser on why socialists must use this election to counter the Starmer/ Tory narrative.  
Music - The Kara Sea

Dan Hutchison SGP Cllr Interview

Neil is talking to Glasgow City Cllr Dan Hutchison of the Scottish Green Party on his 2 years a councillor.
Dan’s time as a councillor
What SGP has achieved in his time within GCC
Effects of the breaking of the Bute House Agreement by Humza Yousef
What SGP in Glasgow are doing for the recently announced GE
Why Trade Unionism is important to him

Janis and Graham Ungagged! Episode 4 "Your choice - Tory, Tory, Tory... or socialist."

Janis and Graham discuss the announcement of the General Election...

Holyrude Ungagged Season 7 Episode 3 “Where Does Contra Come From?”

David and Connor discuss;- New Scottish Cabinet- Is Uk Labour undermining Scottish Labour?- Nefarious Tory plans for Scotland- English Water Contaminated by parasites!
 
Music: James King and the Lonely Wolves.

Richie Venton Ungagged! Episode 3 - How to solve homelessness...

Richie Venton on the crisis in housing; how the Scottish Government have been cutting housing budgets and the resulting homelessness and how to solve it!
 
*Richie corrects his initial valuation of Anders Holch Povlsen to £6.5 Billion.
Music: The Kara Sea

Janis and Graham Ungagged! Episode 3: "Extremists?"

On
- Richie Sunak's “Extremist” comments regarding the Scottish Electorate,
- the imminence of new Scottish nuke power stations -according to Alister Jack - under an imagined ”return of a unionist regime," and what this statement says about British politics...
- Why Andy Burnham WANTS what we have.
- The gradualism of Swinney
- and a reply to Jonathan Shafi’s article in The National... (https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24317597.jonathon-shafi-shouldnt-place-blind-faith-new-snp-leadership/) 
all packed into 13 minutes!

Richie Venton Ungagged! Ep 2 - Where is the "Centre Left?"

Richie Venton on Starmer and Swinney's claims to be "Centre Left." What does that mean for working class people when 1 the Labour right winger, Neil Kinnock says Starmer "has gone too far," and 2 Swinney's inclusion of Kate Forbes and her economic and social views, into his Cabinet...
 

Holyrude Ungagged - S7 Ep 2 - My only note is Cat Piss

David McClemont is joined by Debra Torrance and Connor Beaton as they discuss:-
 
- The sudden departure of Humza Yousaf as First Minister and the appointment of John Swinney as his successor.  
- Reaction to the English Local Elections.

Janis and Graham Ungagged! Episode 2

SNP Socialist Co-convenors, Janis Wilson and Councillor Graham Campbell on the new Scottish cabinet and their changing priorities. 
- Does this new Cabinet unite the SNP coalition for Independence and the Scottish electorate, or will it alienate the majority progressives across Scotland? How far is compromise with centrists too far?
- Clarity on the SNP stance on the Palestine Genocide as opposed to Starmer and Sarwar’s party 
- Who is welcome in the Labour Party - Will Starmer celebrate Farage next? Or Diane Abbott? - 
- Devolution vs Independence.
-an extended Janis and Graham Ungagged! this week!

Richie Venton Ungagged Episode 1

Richie Venton, The Scottish Socialist Party Trade Union Organiser introduces his new regular Ungagged slot with a message to the SNP Government.
 
Music "Oh, If Only, " by The Kara Sea.
Photo:  Craig Maclean