RE: Independence could revitalise Scotland – and England too
January 14, 2012 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2012 at 11:53 am by 5thHorseman.)
Tiberius, they had a majority of 179ish in '97 167 in 2001, so the majority even without Scotland it would have been 138 and 126.
Destroying the economy might have something to those irresponsible policies originally bought in by Thatcher and her pal Reagan continued by New Labour, or maybe the banks had something to do with it? Not sure if you noticed but the UK did well under a Labour government compared to other big countries in Europe, and suffered like the rest of the first world, granted Brown/Blair made some awful mistakes, but who didn't suffer?
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Destroying the economy might have something to those irresponsible policies originally bought in by Thatcher and her pal Reagan continued by New Labour, or maybe the banks had something to do with it? Not sure if you noticed but the UK did well under a Labour government compared to other big countries in Europe, and suffered like the rest of the first world, granted Brown/Blair made some awful mistakes, but who didn't suffer?
