Edinburgh Business Labour Forum
European Craigmillar
- A EURO-ZONE is already operating in Scotland, the Edinburgh Business Labour Forum found out at its debate over whether the British euro is dead or merely comatose. As David Martin, MEP, and Nigel Smith, of the "No to the Euro" campaign, pored over the problem, Paul Nolan informed everybody that the euro was alive and well and licking, if not kicking, in Craigmillar. Recently returned from exporting Irn-Bru chews to Poland, he was handing over some loose change to Shannon, his eight-year-old granddaughter. As he was about to explain what the coins were, Shannon chirped:
- "Oh great, euros."
- "How do you know about euros?"
- "The ice-cream van takes them," Shannon grinned. "One of them buys you a euro -cone." And with that she was out the door.[1]
Road tolls
- A FUNNY thing happened on the way to the Edinburgh Business Labour Forum lunch. Wallace Mercer was there, holding forth on road tolls. Labour is indeed a broad church when we espy the bold Wallace in its ranks. Not so much New Labour as Nouveau Labour. ut as a broad church, it was almost like hearing a Mass in Latin when they announced their February forum: "The Winter of Discontent", with speaker Bill Spiers. Does Bob Thomson, a union man at the helm of EBLF, know something Tony Blair doesn't?[2]
People
- Robbie MacDuff, lobbyist
