Scotland's decision

[joebloggs]

Well, if they vote YES, there will never be a Tory Government in Scotland - thou it will be a lot harder for Labour to win in the UK without the Scottish Labour MPs.

But if they vote NO, it will be easier for Labour to win in the UK

[Arthur Little]

Well, if they vote YES, there will never be a Tory Government in Scotland - thou it will be a lot harder for Labour to win in the UK without the Scottish Labour MPs.

But if they vote NO, it will be easier for Labour to win in the UK

s, Joe ... for some (obscure) reason, Scotland's long been a Labour stronghold.

[Arthur Little]

Look at the table Arthur and the collapse of the Tories in Scotland since the 1950s and the rise of the other parties..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Scotland

Oh 's an undeniable fact ... but it's equally true that Scotland gives more to Westminster than it receives in return. Little wonder, then, that the electorate north of the Border has - since the 1950s - increasingly turned to Labour in the forlorn hope of rescuing Scotland's declining industries and reclaiming at least a proportion of its money - suspected of being used to fill the coffers of the rich by successive rip~off Tory administrations.


Sadly, as it turned out, Scotland has been deceived on BOTH counts by Labour and Tories alike over the intervening decades ... I mean, does ANYONE really think the MAIN political parties would be so keen to keep the Scots as part of the UK if we're being subsidised to the extent they'd have us believe?