Monday, May 11, 2015

But we didn't vote for them....

So all but three of the Scottish constituencies now have an SNP nationalist as their member of parliament, and the cry is already going up that the Westminster government do not "represent" them.  Once again Scotland see themselves somehow as a special case. Here in the industrial West Midlands, and even more so in Merseyside and the North-west generally (and not to mention London itself), the election map is overwhelmingly red, so the same could be said to apply.  But that's democracy, isn't it?  There will be winners and there will be losers, and if you're one of the losers, you accept it (not necessarily with good grace) or go and live elsewhere. Frankly the Scots get on my nerves, forever throwing their "Scottishness" in the faces of the rest of us.  After all, they represent slightly less than 10% of the electorate of the UK as a whole, and the idea that the other 90% of us should have to dance to their tune is the antithesis of democracy. Grow up, folks!

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