Sunday, September 04, 2011

The End of The Line?

The news of Murdo Fraser's bid, as a Scottish Conservative M.E.P., to disband that party North of the Border suggests that the Tory decline there may be terminal. Events since the 1960's, when Conservative policy favoured devolution, and the party actually won a Westminster seat from Labour, have gone downhill. The fatal blow was the Parliamentary decision in 1981 to insist upon a vote by an absolute majority of all electors in favour of devolution, without which the bill for autonomy would fail. The Scots have never trusted the Conservatives after that - and almost certainly never will.

Michael B. Buck.

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