Shooting yourself in the face

[andrewducker]

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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[marrog.livejournal.com]

Chris Huhne made an interesting suggestion in the Indie (or was it the Grauniad? Hard to tell some days) regarding this.

He commented that if Scotland declared independence, England would then be forced into either electoral reform toward PR or have to put up with Tory governments in perpituity.

While I think there's an element of bitter scaremongering ("You idiot Labour voters - you've just doomed us all!") it's certainly true that the Blue counties would hold a lot more sway without Scotland propping up the Red vote.

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

That's why a lot of people down here have a "Move to Scotland, Quick! Before They Close the Border!" bag packed in the attic.