Posted on 05/11/2010 5:06:35 AM PDT by C19fan
English taxpayers face being held to ransom by Scottish and Welsh nationalists in a 'rainbow' coalition to prop up Labour - despite having voted overwhelmingly for the Conservatives. Even though Labour and the Liberal Democrats have now entered talks over a possible deal, they will only get a Commons majority if they ally themselves with minority parties from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But these parties, such as the SNP and Plaid Cymru, have said they will demand their countries be protected from cuts as a price for keeping Labour in No 10. Although last week's election was inconclusive across the UK, in England the Tories gained a massive majority of 62 - and won nearly three million votes from Labour.
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My boss at work is a fresh immigrant from Scotland (came to NZ from Scotland about 7 years ago). Believe it or not, I remember when I mentioned the beliefs of most Scottish-descent Americans and how a disproportionate are hard conservatives, he face turned very white - probably horrified by the thoughts of right-wing leaning Scottish-Americans.
And he is already not a particularly socialist type of person - for one thing, he doesn’t believe in man-made global warming. Imagine what other Scots in Scotland actually believe.
The Scots will either keep the monarchy or become a republic. The Jacobite “option” isn’t even on the table. It is a dead issue for all except a few eccentric cranks. We aren’t living in the early 18th century anymore. Besides which, Jacobism isn’t the same as Scottish Nationalism, the Jacobite line heir to the thrones of England and Ireland (well, the Northern Part) as well...
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