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Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts)
Sat May 9, 2015, 09:09 PM May 2015

Scottish nationalists tell Cameron: Ignore Scottish landslide at your peril

After sweeping almost all the seats in Scotland in Thursday's British election, the leader of the secessionist SNP cautioned Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday: Ignore the wishes of Scottish voters at your peril.

Cameron's Conservatives stormed to a surprise overall majority in the national parliament, but scraped only one seat in Scotland while the Scottish National Party, less than nine months after losing an independence referendum, grabbed half of all the votes cast north of the border.

"My message today to Westminster is this: Scotland's voice will be heard in Westminster now more loudly than it has ever been before," SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said in the shadow of the Forth Bridge outside the Scottish capital.

"As I told the prime minister when I spoke to him yesterday, it simply cannot be and will not be business as usual when it comes to Westminster's dealing with Scotland."

http://news.yahoo.com/scottish-nationalists-tell-cameron-ignore-scottish-landslide-peril-145908092.html

I'm fascinated by the narrative we encounter that scottish nationalism is good, but english nationalism is bad.

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Scottish nationalists tell Cameron: Ignore Scottish landslide at your peril (Original Post) Jesus Malverde May 2015 OP
It goes far beyond that DonCoquixote May 2015 #1
It's telling Labour lost all their seats after years of the likes of Blair. Jesus Malverde May 2015 #2
I have a problem with Great Britain being overly Anglo-centric. TexasProgresive May 2015 #3

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
1. It goes far beyond that
Sat May 9, 2015, 09:13 PM
May 2015

Scotland wants to keep the socialist/leftwing facets on government that the EU right wing wants to trash. What happpend was that labor wanted to keep a lot of the right wing austerity, but kept assuring scotland that they would get around to thewm , much like our Dems keep telling the Sanders wing to shut up.

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)
3. I have a problem with Great Britain being overly Anglo-centric.
Sat May 9, 2015, 09:17 PM
May 2015

Why does England have all the power? What about Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Cornwal?

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