Quote: (09-17-2014 08:46 PM)Deluge Wrote:
Quote: (09-17-2014 07:08 PM)CrashBangWallop Wrote:
The prospect of Labour never governing the UK again is a major relief also.
Unlikely. Like I said earlier Blair won enough seats in all of his elections to win without Scotland, even with two reduced majorities by 2005. Labour only needs an extra 1% swing to make up for losing all of Scotland's seats. At most they will shift a little to the centre on economic policy to better chase votes in England and make up that 1%.
Even aside from that, I think it's preposterous that a left wing party would never gain power again. The reverse could be true in many countries eventually simply because of demographics (immigrants and locals on welfare), but there's never not going to be a left wing party. With the entire apparatus of the bureaucracy, the media, academia, the primary and secondary education systems, there is always going to be a certain amount of left wing cultural capital. That's the whole point of the Gramscian march through the institutions. For the right wing to hold power for a long time, they'd have to declare an open and total war upon those institutions and the culture at large, and that's not going to happen. The right doesn't have the inclination or the ability.
Also, people are really opposed to the idea of a one party state in the West in general, but the Anglosphere in particular. There is always going to be a seesawing between two main parties or coalitions. The real political action happens, of course, in shifting the Overton Window leftwards. The departure of Scotland might provide a very minor shift to the right in anything but appearances (policy won't change much) for one or two elections, and then the ship's course will be corrected back to destroying Western civilisation.
Let's hope there is not another Blair! That man was terrible for the U.K. in all the wrong ways. He was responsible for, amongst other things, flooding the nation with third world scumbags.