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Friday, September 19, 2014

Yes vs No

If you're a politics junky, this article is an interesting analysis of today's "No" vote in the Scottish independence referendum.

One of the more intriguing possibilities is that the Cameron Government used (perhaps manipulated?) the situation to introduce a proposal for separation of issues into "UK-wide" versus "English only" votes in Parliament. In the right conditions, that could effectively undermine Labour's domestic initiatives, as they often rely on support from Scottish Labour to pass close votes. A tertiary effect is that bad feelings among the English vs Scottish MPs would effectively marginalize the Scots in Parliament and further divide the left coalition, making it more difficult for them to form a Government from any given election.

Layers upon layers upon layers... Politics are rarely about what you see in the newspapers; that's just the smokescreen.

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