To begin a blog about politics by making a general and incredibly depressing single sentence may not be the best way to draw viewers in but you would be hard pressed not to look at the British political layout 3 weeks before an election and not either laugh or cry.
For those of you interested enough a well researched website from today projects the following:
| Conservatives | 286 | |||
| Labour | 271 | |||
| SNP | 43 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | 26 | |||
| UKIP | 1 |
It would appear at a glance that the only way to see a stable Government (which the UK clearly needs) is for a grand coalition of the left: Labour, Lib Dem, SNP. I will come on to the abject horror of Mr Milliband in number 10 in another post because today is not the day for me to ratchet up my blood pressure unnecessarily. My worry instead centres on the SNP, heroes of Scottish nationalists and the real winners from five years of austerity.
The Scottish National Party are still reeling from the disappointment of losing an independence referendum, or so you may think in fact the best possible thing happened for them. Alex Salmond promised the people of Scotland the glory of a modern social Democratic utopia, now he walks away not having to make good on a single promise he has made, the people of Scotland voted to stay in the United Kingdom but - of course - that was due to a load of half arsed promises from London and scaremongering. As Mr Salmond waved goodbye as first minister of Scotland he played the martyr who couldn't quite get his dream, as he did so he licked his lips as he realised that it was the best end to the story he could have hoped for.
You see the SNP have tapped into some latent tensions with the English that some of the Scots have had over the last three hundred years or so, re awakened by an unpopular regime north of the border. For some peculiar reasons our cousins in Scotland seem to think they are getting a bad deal out of the UK, one simply has to point to the Barnett formula to identify that the Scots are really doing quite well from the arrangement.... Then there is the history, you know the English royal family were responsible for the death of the Queen of Scotland 500 years or so ago. If you really wish to dredge up history should we not consider the fact that the Acts of Union were a bailout deal to the people of Scotland in the first place? Scotland was a bankrupt little nation, within one hundred years she was at the sharp end of the largest empire ever known.
Scarlet isn't saying this to light the flame of anger in the heart of patriotic Scot's. Scarlet is wondering why the English aren't getting annoyed by this? We do we not care? Could it be the classic 'passive' English attitude? The same attitude which has seen our country fill up without enough new roads, schools, hospitals, homes and jobs? Could it be that we simply do not care?
Whichever way you perceive what is going to happen it seems inevitable that the United Kingdom is slowly tearing itself apart. The Scot's are annoyed and want more power in Edinburgh and less in London. The English vote is split and weak, should England unite in the next few weeks the only way it can go is to top up the Conservatives to 300 seats or so, enough to keep Mr Cameron in Number 10; and we all know what Scotland think of the Tories...
Scarlet may be wrong, our best days may be ahead, but it seems to me that the beginning of the end is here.
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