Ummm, in any case, I believe Mr.Salmond has put the only solution on the table, ending all arguments economic and otherwise, much to the chagrin of Scottish unionist MSPs and the three-hundred or so automaton delegates in Westminster. As such, he is committed only to pursuing complete independence, which is something you should welcome.

There. Simple, even for a complete muppet like you.

Akin to Glasgow East, I’m expecting the Labour majority to be slashed, but not counting on an out-and-out victory.

The difference with Glenrothes is that Labour are bringing to bear as much negative campaigning as possible at the local level [the SNP won the seat in the Scottish elections last year] next to the back-beat of ‘Gordon has saved the world’ from the mass unionist press. So we have scores of Labour activists doing the rounds and criticising/spreading rumours about the SNP’s relatively short-record here, within the walls of Labourite social clubs in the area etc.

What we’ve seen over the past few years is encouraging. The Labour heartlands has seen the traditional vote plumment, no doubt. But in the short-term, they still have enough to hold on to Glenrothes.

A friend of mine once remarked how people in core Labour areas have a VERY slow ‘click’ factor. They seem to have a penchant for voting in the very people keeping them in poverty etc. Even recently, they consistently criticised Labour – but voted them in nonetheless – for the eight shambolic years they were in office in Edinburgh.

Even now, many associate the 70′s ‘workers party’ with this contemptible shower of rat-bags who are pushing themselves as the working mans party today. What utter drivel. Even ex-marchers like Jimmy Reid and co. have attested to this. In many cases, the tendency to vote Labour seems purely to come from a habitual and stubborn refusal to acknowledge their many short-comings, other than making informed decisions in a changing political landscape.

In saying that, there have also been scores of traditional Labour voters, the ones who can grasp reason at least, that seem to be THINKING and grabbing on to other options. Many seem genuinely excited by the SNP.

I agree 100% with your general wonderment on the ‘Gordon’s caps’ score. Frankly, it staggers me. At the very least, there doesn’t seem to have been any serious attempt on this mark to bring Brown to call. The man has been part of the problem here, it just astonishes me that he seems to be getting away with it so easily.

On another note, an English friend, who will likely vote Tory in the UK election, suggested that a Tory victory in the UK election [backed by the majority of English votes] is not a foregone conclusion.

Now that, admittedly for my own selfish means, is depressing. Can this really be the case?

Go for it on the 6th and good luck, from an English separatist.

Eh?

Thanks for the thoughtfulness LBB, but thanks and no-thanks. The cause for Independence doesn’t hang on the bizarre machinations of unionist mass press. No one – outside the unionist media – believes any of it.

Glenrothes? Yes, damaged – but only down to the pound, pound pounding of the frankly, incomprehensible, ‘Gordon Brown is the hero of the modern world’ rift.

???

Let me get this straight. The man does not do his job properly for ten years, acts on the ONLY viable course of action left to him next to economic meltdown THEN has the arrogance to use it as a political tool against those who DO NOT WISH to be part of a union, on union terms, which exposes it to such risk in the first place?

Please.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

I think people will start to see the holes in Gordon’s cape over the next few weeks, and take better heed of the feedbags round the muzzles of his scaremongering Scottish Labour trolls, and their latest fear tactics.

How long will this UK be in debt for? LOL!

Pull the other one Mr.Brown.

With the bail-out of the banks by the Westminster Raj, Scottish Independence now seems like a pipe dream for Alex Salmond, its probably goodbye to an SNP win at the forthcoming By-election, and a nightmare for the Campaign for an English parliament.

Hopefully it may get up the noses of Scottish separatists to think that they have to rely on Westminster to help them out of their troubles, but as you say,not an English MP in sight.
Where do we go from here ?

A £100m loan is being given by the Bank of England to the UK arm of the collapsed Icelandic bank Landsbanki to help repay the bank’s UK creditors.

Where will that cash be going?