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Scottish Labour MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar. If you are a Western Isles constituent and want to get in touch e mail torcuil.crichton.mp@parliament.uk
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Help Labour win the Western Isles - Supporters

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By Torcuil Crichton
| crowdfunder.co.uk
£012345678901234567890123456789012345678901,012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345601234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 £2,000 target 23 days left 98% 15 supporters To win Na h-Eileanan an Iar we need to raise funds for adverts, mail shots and voter contacts.Please help and play a part in the campaign. by Torcuil Crichton in Stornoway, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, United Kingdom
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The SNP promise diamonds and deliver rust. And Scotland nears a tipping point – LabourList

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By Torcuil Crichton
| LabourList Verified
The pithiest take on the whole catastrophe that has befallen the SNP was an early tweet on the scandal which liberated slack-jawed Scots. It simply read: “You are allowed to enjoy this.” After many years of SNP dominance, and the baleful online machine-gunning of anyone who dared raise their head in opposition, permission was granted to laugh.
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Private Finance Initiative (PFI) has left the UK with £47bn 'Enron-style' debt

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By Ian Fraser, Torcuil Crichton
| ianfraser.org
The Treasury has hidden a £47 billion debt mountain caused by Britain’s PFI schemes using “Enron-style accounting” to keep payments off the government’s balance sheets, according to to the head of one of the UK’s largest accountancy firms. Maurice Fitzpatrick, the head of economics at Tenon, says the practice is masking the true cost of PFI schemes and undermining the credibility of the government’s own book-keeping at a time when accounting practices are under the spotlight.
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South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay said unemployed young people should 'get on their bikes' to 'work on farms with gorgeous EU women'

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By Torcuil Crichton
| kentlive.news
Conservative MP for South Thanet, Craig Mackinlay, has caused outrage after reportedly telling unemployed youngsters in Glasgow to 'get on their bikes' and work on English farms with 'gorgeous EU women'. Mr Mackinlay is said to have made the remarks at a fringe event of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester on Monday (October 1), according to our sister site the Daily Mirror.
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The Scottish invasion of Westminster

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By Torcuil Crichton
| TotalPolitics Verified
SNP MPs don’t want to join the establishment, they want to break it apart. Ever since the Earl of Bute stuffed his 18th century cabinet with so many cronies that there were fifteen Ministers with surnames beginning Mac, Westminster has borne waves of Scottish political invasion. This parliament will be the first in many years to have a Treasury team without a Scot in a key role.
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