So, Labour have lost their stranglehold on Scotland at long last. Or have they?
The farce that was the voting system and a number of spoiled ballots that make the 'hanging chads' controversy seem insignificant in terms of scale rather than consequences have still managed to leave the Nats as the biggest single party in the parly. Sadly it doesn't give them power. The lingering effects of the hereditary vote saw to that. "My Da' voted Labour & that's good enough for me." So there's no one party with enough seats to hold full majority. The Socialists wiped themselves out in a fit of pique about who was shagging whom and who said what about it, which was a real shame.
Wee McConnell, whilst admitting that the Nats hold the moral right to form our next administration, is essentially refusing to step down as First Meenister. You can see in his piggy wee eyes that he's hoping he'll get to keep the ba' and find a way to hold onto the job. I reckon Labour are hoping that a minority administration will be hamstrung and that they can mess with its head throughout its tenure. No doubt they reckon they can make the Nats look incompetent to govern by buggering up the real changes they want to make.
The posturing that came out of Quisling Brown's mouth in the run up to the vote was amazing. How dare the smug git say that he'd refuse to work with a democratically elected government? Doesn't he know he has to let Dubya bum him before he can make those kind of threats? Even then, he has to wait for the real bully to start the trouble before he can run in and kick the victim on the ground. Pick a fight without his consent and you're likely to be left to deal with it alone.
Nicol's Lib-Dems surprised me rather more than anything else that happened. Their blank refusal to work with the Nats to form an administration unless the Nats abandoned their whole raison d'etre opened my eyes to just how similar their view of Scotland is to Labour's. To wit; they have bugger all chance of gaining power in Westminster without a solid vote up here, therefore they cannot afford to have Scotland leave the Union. Hence, despite the clear vote for the Nationalists, they refuse to countenance asking the people of Scotland if they want to go it alone. There's a whole load of prevarication about how we didn't really want a nationalist government and how it was all just about tactical voting to give Labour a smacked botty. Because, apparently, we can't actually decide that we want to have a mature and reasoned debate on the matter, without the scaremongering and lies of New Labour, and then vote to make a decision. That's not why we voted for a party for whom that is the central policy. According to the Lib-Dems, anyway.
I often thought that I might vote Liberal once we actually had Independence.
Not now.
The farce that was the voting system and a number of spoiled ballots that make the 'hanging chads' controversy seem insignificant in terms of scale rather than consequences have still managed to leave the Nats as the biggest single party in the parly. Sadly it doesn't give them power. The lingering effects of the hereditary vote saw to that. "My Da' voted Labour & that's good enough for me." So there's no one party with enough seats to hold full majority. The Socialists wiped themselves out in a fit of pique about who was shagging whom and who said what about it, which was a real shame.
Wee McConnell, whilst admitting that the Nats hold the moral right to form our next administration, is essentially refusing to step down as First Meenister. You can see in his piggy wee eyes that he's hoping he'll get to keep the ba' and find a way to hold onto the job. I reckon Labour are hoping that a minority administration will be hamstrung and that they can mess with its head throughout its tenure. No doubt they reckon they can make the Nats look incompetent to govern by buggering up the real changes they want to make.
The posturing that came out of Quisling Brown's mouth in the run up to the vote was amazing. How dare the smug git say that he'd refuse to work with a democratically elected government? Doesn't he know he has to let Dubya bum him before he can make those kind of threats? Even then, he has to wait for the real bully to start the trouble before he can run in and kick the victim on the ground. Pick a fight without his consent and you're likely to be left to deal with it alone.
Nicol's Lib-Dems surprised me rather more than anything else that happened. Their blank refusal to work with the Nats to form an administration unless the Nats abandoned their whole raison d'etre opened my eyes to just how similar their view of Scotland is to Labour's. To wit; they have bugger all chance of gaining power in Westminster without a solid vote up here, therefore they cannot afford to have Scotland leave the Union. Hence, despite the clear vote for the Nationalists, they refuse to countenance asking the people of Scotland if they want to go it alone. There's a whole load of prevarication about how we didn't really want a nationalist government and how it was all just about tactical voting to give Labour a smacked botty. Because, apparently, we can't actually decide that we want to have a mature and reasoned debate on the matter, without the scaremongering and lies of New Labour, and then vote to make a decision. That's not why we voted for a party for whom that is the central policy. According to the Lib-Dems, anyway.
I often thought that I might vote Liberal once we actually had Independence.
Not now.
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