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Reluctant Hero · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:37 pm Post subject: The Countdown Has Started

The Countdown Has Started

With less than 100 days to go until the election, one of the big questions that needs answered is – Will the election take place at all? With EU rulings stating that criminals must get a vote and with no mechanisms in place to make this happen, is the election in jeopardy?

If the election does go ahead, then what is the most likely outcome going to be? Will we have another Lib-Lab coalition? Another 4 years of dreary government taking its orders from Westminster. Or will we have something new and exciting, such as an SNP led administration. Would they really impose a £1,000,000 tariff on every nuclear warhead transported to Scotland?

Perhaps we should ask the EU what they think of the implications of such a tariff. But then again, in a leaked report meant for Jack McConnell, Scotland is being routinely ignored, forgotten and dismissed by Whitehall officials.

Oooohhh, I feel a constitutional row brewing! Oh, I forgot! It has already erupted with the news after Ruth Kelly, the Communities and Local Government Minister at Westminster is trying to force Scotland to abandon its law of allowing gay couples to adopt children.

Money just can’t buy a good constitutional argument. Something else money can’t buy is a nomination for a peerage to the House of Lords. This was no doubt what Mr McConnell was telling the police when he got questioned about his nomination recently.

There is only one nomination Scotland will be focussing on in the next 100 days or so though and that is the First Minister. With the Lib Dems stating that they will not go into coalition with the SNP, it seems that the SNP quest has suffered a blow. But will the electorate really stomach another Lib/Lab coalition? Who is going to win the race Alex or Jack?

Discuss this and much more at Our Scotland, we look forward to seeing you.

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