BB I have chipping away at Luke’s popular blog in ...

2008-05-10T08:55:00.000+01:00

BB I have chipping away at Luke’s popular blog in London about the UK constitutional significance of the independence option ‘debacle’. Of course it’s an uphill struggle to get anyone around the metro-London- Westminster-set to lift their eyes up and look beyond the South East (a gripe that Scotland shares with the rest of English and Wales outwith the South East).

But I’m making headway – on the basis that there are severe warning signs for Labour in England to be drawn from what seems to be the wholesale collapse of Scottish Labour.

By the way BB, have you been able to get the Newsnight Scotland link to work? I’ve mentioned when trying others’ posted links about the oddity of getting the message that ‘sorry Newsnight Scotland is not available for download’- just about as bad as the appalling poor technical standards experienced when you try to post on BBC Scotland’s ‘Blether with Brian’ blog. It’s impossible to blether with him when you regularly cannot post any comments or replies.

I suspect Cameron is looking for the drip-drip-dri...

2008-05-08T11:35:00.000+01:00

I suspect Cameron is looking for the drip-drip-drip here. Next week it will have been forgotten and Wendy will have had her back side kicked.

But you are right. I advocated at the time that the Tories should have spearheaded a call for a vote immediately after last May. Along the lines of "you are so confident then lets have one now". The only two options would have been to harass Salmond into conceding and making it a topic of fun. Or holding the vote and losing before the winter.

To allow a neo-unionist party like Scottish Labour to use this for their own internal politics simply strengthens the SNP hand.

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BB I have chipping away at Luke’s popular blog in ...

I suspect Cameron is looking for the drip-drip-dri...