Thursday 7 May 2015

Even Today

Someone who ought to have much better things to do today has been onto me, to assure me that the unions were planning to change tack on Proportional Representation if that was what it took to get the Lib Dems on board and thus the Conservatives out.

If that is true, and my source is impeccable, then it is all over for First Past The Post. When it has lost the unions, then it has lost everyone.

More broadly, I hope that Miliband enters Downing Street with only as many Labour MPs from Scotland as there were from Hampshire or Devon, and possibly with more Conservative than Labour MPs there, as could yet happen.

That might begin to puncture the sheer self-regard of the Scottish Labour Party, which has never won 50 per cent of the vote, but which has hitherto been convinced that Scotland was the heart and soul of the Labour Movement.

“We’ve voted Labour for 50 years”? When the hell was that?

The Conservatives were still running Glasgow City Council into the 1970s, and Scotland was the only place to deliver a net increase in Conservative seats as late as 1992. Even in 1997, that party took a quarter of the vote in Scotland.

I shall sing every verse of The Red Flag (the correct lyrics...) and put it on YouTube if Liam Carr is returned at Hexham. Over to you, Liam. The Internet is depending on you.

And I had thought that it was because all Tory girls looked the same. But no. They turned out to be sisters.

Now, 40 winks, I think.

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