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..... in fact they privately laughed, and said the mixed election method they had introduced would ensure that the Scottish National Party, could never get an overall majority.
Of course the whole scheme was intended
to deliver a 'Socialist', New Labour, Scotland, and be the
springboard for endless national election victories, by depriving the
Conservatives of any MP's from Scotland.
My how we are all laughing now .... mainly at New / Old Labour, who today got a kicking and a half in their "Labour"
heartland of Scotland, and surprise surprise, the SNP is now an overall
majority government in Scotland. The final votes resulted in the
SNP with 69 seats, Labour 37, the Conservatives 15, the Lib Dems five,
and the others totalled three.
There will be referendum called on complete Independence in Scotland sometime in the next five years, probably in about two years ... of course they may not say that they want to be the 'new' Ireland, Greece, Iceland or Portugal .... the New Holland anyone?
On a side note, if Scotland does take the plunge, then the English will get their own "Devolution" and finally stop paying the subsidies for Scottish socialism .... and Labour have only ever won one "English" Parliamentary election majority (in 1945) i.e could not have formed a UK Government without Scottish and Welsh Labour MP's...... just a thought.
Look come on, the SNP turn in an inevitable landslide, yet what is on the front page of the newspapers up here, the Rangers take over.
ReplyDeletePuts life in Scotland in perspective, new goverment, possible independance.......you can keep that, a new owner at Rangers, now that is important.
Whilst I acknowledge that the purchase of a football club (one of the 'new opiate of the masses') may well have diverted the attention of the average punter in Scotland, its still fair comment to point out that we are teetering on the edge of the unexpected and the unknown. When the labour architects of devolution devised devised the voting system, they did so in the smug assumption that:
ReplyDelete(a) Labour would always be the majority party, and
(b) that the nationalists would never ever get an absolute majority, and
(c) that in the unlikely event that both (a) and (b) would fail, then the people of Scotland would reject independence ....
Yet 5 years ago, (a) was broken by the SNP becoming the single largest party, and this week (b) has also been shattered with the SNP getting an absolute majority in parliament.
So, given the failure of both of the main assumptions of the Labour Party strategists, who is really going to bet that the Scottish people will decisively reject independence? I realise that the chances are that they will, but it was deemed unlikely that they would have got this far ... but they have.
Noticeably the Labour Party leadership is now crapping itself because the loss of Scotland will probably deprive them them of power in England as well .... Gordon Brown and Ed Milliband have both made attacks on the SNP .... Ed Miliband has accused the SNP of pursuing a "dogma" of independence, with Gordon Brown tipped to lead the attack on Alex Salmond.
Tony Blair has now said that he never wanted to introduce devolution as he distrusts the arguments of Nationalists .. but he believed the advice he was given that the voting system and historic labour vote would stop what's now happened from ever occurring.
We shall see what we shall see .....