Why are the media getting into
a sweat about David Cameron refusing to take part in any political leader’s
debates on TV if it doesn’t include The Green party, when the more important
question they should be asking is why is the leader of the Scottish National
Party being ignored.
According
to the latest polling figures for the upcoming General Election in May the
Scottish National Party (SNP) are on course to become the majority political
party representing Scotland at Westminster. Faced with what appears to be more than a
possibility the SNP after May could see itself not only being in control of the
Scottish Parliament but being the third largest party in the whole of the
United Kingdom, and more importantly it would be in the enviable position of being
able to put pressure on any prospective UK government, even to the point of
making a British political party include them in any coalition. Whether in a
coalition or not the SNP could make it nigh on impossible or extremely
difficult to say the least for any British Political Party to govern one half
of the kingdom without their help. Facing the prospect of a Scottish national
party passing laws on England doesn’t bear thinking about so why can’t the media
and the so called English party the Conservatives see this, and why is this
party having second thoughts on their English Votes for English Laws policy
while giving this Scottish national party more power? The English have looked
at the last 16years of devolution and the Barnett Formula as bribery by the
British to keep Scotland in the Union, but is there any British political
party now thinking the unthinkable and willing to offer a Scottish national
party English government.
The
question needs to be asked, will there be a Union
a United
Kingdom
after May’s election or not, and if so what sort of United Kingdom will it be if the British do lose their power in Scotland to the SNP?
This
is the most important Question to be put forward in any debate and D. Cameron
and E. Milliband must be made to answer it.
J.Stanhope
C
