andrewducker: (whoever invented boredom...)
andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2011-05-10 08:53 am

Shooting yourself in the face

Apparently David Cameron is being advised to take control of the Scottish situation by preempting the Scottish government holding a referendum and announcing it themselves.

Right now I feel pretty much neutral about Scottish Independence. I can see positives and negatives.

But if a Westminster government starts trying to manipulate what happens because of the election up here, I'm going to be voting in favour of it, and so will an awful lot of other people. Because it's exactly that kind of behaviour which has a fair chunk of the population wanting independence in the first place.
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[personal profile] pseudomonas 2011-05-10 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
Just checking my maths. There are 650 seats, reduced to 591 without the 59 in Scotland. The threshold for majority is now 591/2 rounded up = 296. The Tories have 307 seats, minus the one in Scotland is 306. Bum.