It's taken this long for me to come to terms with losing the Indy referendum vote, I can't believe that people voted to remain part of the UK. What concerns me is the difference between yes and no, all the polls predicted it would be no more than 3% win or lose, at the end there was a 10% difference. This was too big to just have happened, and was way outside margins for error in polls, being a confirmed conspiracy theorist I think we were stitched up. This seems to be confirmed by the latest polls for support for the SNP which is standing at around 50% and has increased it's membership by over 60,000 to become the largest party in Scotland and second/third largest in the UK, I'm saying second because Labour inflate their numbers by counting union membership and individual members which means a large number are counted twice as members of a union and individual members.
Next up in Scotland is the contest to elect a new leader of the Scottish branch of the Labour Party. Could well be Jim Murphy but what will happen when he loses his seat as an MP can he still be leader of the party without being either an MSP or MP? We will see candidates promise the earth the moon and the stars to become leader. It should be remembered that they were in power in Scotland locally and nationally for the best part of 70 years and didn't deliver anything apart for poverty, low standards of living, high unemployment, the benefit culture and so much less than people should aspire to.
Labour have aligned themselves for too many years with the centre area traditionally the home of the Tories and then became the mouthpiece of the better together campaign which was a Conservative product. They have lost their way. Did they ever have it, well in the 60's and early 70's when politicians actually done the job for altruistic reasons maybe, but not anymore Maggie Thatcher put an end to that with open ended expenses and career politicians. Now politicians local and national are in it for whatever they can get out of it and to enable being voted in as often as possible they have joined the party of everyman. This is where they will tell everyone what they want to hear.
I do tend to tar all politicians with the same brush but I do give exception to the SNP because they don't bow down to a London centric master all their energy is geared to getting Scotland the best possible deal. They have consistently shown that over the past 7 years.
Enough for now, I get a bee in my bunnet and can't let it go. I should take stress relief classes.
Take next time non-readers, my phantom fandom of invisible friends.
Tarra.
