scotland elections

We are in interesting times but for David Cameron's party with his increased majority, no coalition partner to keep them in check and for their party no change in Scotland.(They had 1 seat before the election in Scotland and have 1 seat after the election). I am wondering how he will balance...

Actually, it started happening within days or even hours of the independence referendum result. People started joining the SNP in droves, and the other two smaller independence-supporting parties in significant numbers. SNP membership, which had been steadily if unspectacularly growing for...

OK, there are lots of comments online from Scots as to whether they want to stay or leave the union, I'd like to hear from non-Scots. If you were Scottish would you vote to leave the union or stay in it? I think I'd vote yes for independence - due to the following reasons: 1) Whitehall barely...

Continued from here. Actually...... If Rolfe cared to apply some objective thinking to this small issue, she would quickly be able to realise that the bus is covered in a high-tech vinyl wrap, of a sort that's only been technically viable for a few years but which is very high-impact (which...

According to Wikipedia, there are a round 20 parties standing, but sorry, I'm not listing the lot. If you're a devotee of the Pirate Party or Ban Bankers' Bonuses or one of Tommy Sheridan's schism parties or whatever, please say so in the thread. If you intend to vote for a different party...

Interesting: http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/ Looks like Salmond has an uphill task before Scotland goes to the polls next year.

Due to be announced tomorrow, is anyone particularly excited by the SNP White Paper on independence? I don't think it's great timing. and would have been better brought in during the first year of an SNP administration given that it's pretty much their raison-d'être. We're in the middle of a...

Going for the ultimate award in tastelessness here, as the MP only died last night, but here is a thread to discuss the political implications of this. This constituency is in Scotland, and the seat is currently held by Labour with a majority of about 10,000 (compare Glasgow East where the...

Big question appears to be how well the SNP will do. Not sure about Plaid Cymru in wales.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4695270.stm Not bad for a party that lost it's leader recently.