Labour wipe out

So finally the consequences of Labours plans to fan the flames of nationalism, anti English bigotry, and grievance in Scotland are coming home to roost.

There's an opinion poll this evening that represents near wipe out for labour in Scotland. Indeed not on a scale seen since Labour and the Lib Dems decide to push the Scottish constitutional convention and the sinister and notorious Scottish claim of right to wipe the Tories out.

What goes around seems to come around.

This may be terminal for Labour, or perhaps just Ed Miliband. ( There is a school of thought that thinks the circumstances are being engineered to drop Ed. )

But whatever the truth of the plots and rumours of anyone cares to save the union they are going to need a better plan than the current devolution mess and hope for the best.

And let's not forget thus is the result of Labours willful vandalism if what was once called out nation.

Labour, in Scotland, are a hollowed out Oak tree

For those who still support the Union the signs that Labour are heading for a major collapse in Scotland are hard the welcome. ( Though many of us will never be able to supress a smile when Labour's chicken come home to roast as they have with the Union busting anti-English devolution settlement Labour have forced on our joint nation ).

The truth is Labour have been dying in Scotland for quite some time, in part aided by the fact that as a Unionist party Labour sent is talent to Westminster not Holyrood.

The boost in SNP membership and the decline in Labours combined with the loss of hinterland that proportional representation has created in local Scottish government and now in the Scottish Parliament has been deeply damaging to Labour. So has the insane fight to be left wing between just about everyone except UKIP and the sad rump of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist party.

Labour has been hollowed out for many years, starting in the days of John Major.

Now, with the reignation of their figure head leader in Scotland, the whole partty looks like being on the verge of collapse.

Its hard to see Labour in Scotland as having a future, and many young Scots who are drawn to power and public spending will be drawn to the SNP not Labour. Especially as Scottish Labour isn't really Unionist in that many of its key members signed the separatist Scottish Claim of Right.

Labour is close to collapse, and so too in the Union between England and Scotland.

It will take real leadership to reverse this one - not dictatorship under Gordon Brown.

Perhaps future North Sea Oil revenues should under write the government loans to RBS and HBOS ?

This should concentrate Scottish Labour minds. Since RBS and HBOS are Scottish banks, how about underwriting them with future revenues from Scottish Oil ?

I stand back and await the howls of protest .....

Who votes for Scotland ?

If there is to be a referendum of independence for the location of Scotland - who should the electorate include ?

1) Just those UK citizens on the electoral roll in Scotland ?
2) Only people who would wish to be Scottish Citizens on the electoral roll in Scotland ?
3) All those people who would/could become Scottish Citizens if Scotland was to separate ?

With the Scottish Parliament it has clearly be seen as 1). But I would argue that natural justice requires that for the separation from the UK 3) is required.

Of course this choice will probably determine the result .....