Bring It On! (Wendya Think We Should Have a Referendum?)

Wendy Alexander                                       A Muppet

I just listened to Wendy Alexander saying on the radio that the SNP should immediately bring forward plans for a referendum on Scottish independence (”bring it on!” were her exact words). That’s right this is Wendy Alexander, leader of Scottish Labour we’re talking about. Now lets examine this strategy. The SNP has just celebrated one year in power in Scotland (albeit as a minority administration). They are enjoying a honeymoon period and their approval ratings are sky high with Labour in free fall in the polls. In England the latest test of public opinion on Labour was last week when they were laid prostrate and roundly rogered by the Tories and are now in third place behind the Liberal Democrats. Also, didn’t the three unionist parties just set up the “constitutional kerfuffle” and take an anti referendum stance?

I welcome the news on the Labour party’s new found enthusiasm for referendums. Ideally before the independence one we could have the Euro one and maybe get back to only one legislative body churning out laws in Scotland instead of three.

Seriously though at this moment I would be undecided about independence but if my hand was forced in a referendum, I’d vote yes. Anything which gets rid of a whole tier of politicians has to be given serious consideration. The machinery is all in place for independence and at each step Labour have assured us, to quote George Robertson that “this will leave the nationalists dead in the water”. Well that hasn’t happened yet. Wendy had better hope that in this monumental gamble there ain’t too many folk like me around if the SNP call her bluff.

“She said WHAT?”

---

Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)

• 'Victim of internal politics'
• Poll disaster … then 2 ‘quit’
• Scottish Labour Leader quits
• Alexander facing suspension