Plain sailing for the SNP budget?
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson
4.6 • 274 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The Scottish Budget dominates this week’s episode - did Scottish Labour produce a massive own goal by not bothering to contest or argue for anything in the budget? Has their decision to abstain made life easier for the SNP and led to muted criticism in the press? There seems to be the impression, in the press at least, that there's not an awful lot to say about the budget and the SNP have sailed through a fairly steady as she goes and uninspring pre-election budget with little pain.
We look at the situations across the world at the moment, in Minnesota in the aftermath of the terrible shooting there, the situation in Iran, and the continuing pressure on Greenland. All this and more.
Links
See the latest film showings for the new Finland Film
https://lesleyriddoch.com/events
Greenland films
Uncovering the history of America's secret cold war base on Greenland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIw8pEqJMHw
How did Greenland become part of Denmark and why does Trump want to buy it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYfSlQaIEXk
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| 0:00.0 | Did Scottish Labour produce a massive own goal, really, by not bothering to contest or argue for anything in the Scottish budget? |
| 0:08.8 | They decided to abstain, made life easier for the SMP, made life easier for them, but they have nothing to show for it. |
| 0:15.5 | And it's left an impression in the press at least that there's not an awful lot to say about the budget. |
| 0:21.3 | The SMP has sailed through. |
| 0:22.9 | We discuss. |
| 0:24.2 | We look also at the situations across the world at the moment. |
| 0:29.5 | Minnesota in the aftermath of the terrible shooting there and of course the US decrying the shooting of innocent protesters in Iran. We still wait to see today what |
| 0:40.4 | will actually happen. So there's an awful lot on the go. Those are some of the headlines. Here's |
| 0:44.9 | the podcast. Well, hi folks and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddick podcast. Ms. Riddick, you're back |
| 0:50.5 | from Parks Yonder screening the first screening of the Finland film. |
| 0:55.7 | How did that go out and about with the genuine communi? |
| 0:59.7 | Yeah, in Karnoosti. |
| 1:01.7 | Yeah, it went down really well, actually. |
| 1:03.7 | I mean, it's the same thing that people, by the end of it, slightly jaws on the ground. |
| 1:07.7 | What can we do now? |
| 1:10.3 | You know, lots of, I know lots of questions |
| 1:12.3 | about stuff I'm going to have to go and bone up on, actually, particularly people fascinated |
| 1:16.8 | about housing. It's always, you know, when we went there, well, Gavin didn't have to go there, |
| 1:22.7 | he lives there, but clearly if you, indeed, the, the home secretary, British Home Secretary of |
| 1:29.7 | Eck Cooper is in Finland today, totally looking at defence security, war, you know, |
| 1:35.1 | preparations for war, all the problems that will probably come on to talking about with Arctic |
| 1:39.8 | security and so on. And yet what people are interested in is actually the domestics, you know, |
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