it is not called the scottish nationalist party. It's called the scottish national party.
And even that's a stupid name because they are referred to constantly as nationalists and the party no doubt attracts a lot of nationalists too. They are not (or in my opinion should not be) a nationalist party, until the formation of the scottish parliament (now wrongly called the scottish government) the SNP were essentially a single policy party campaigning for Scotland to be given the status of a fully independent state within the EU. in recent years however they have had to change into a major political party within the scottish regional assembly. Though they have considerable support, it is a long way short of a majority. This is because most scots don't vote, or support either Labour or the Liberal Democrats for reasons which are imho based on stupidity (ie: their fathers voted that way) or cowardice (ie: fear of change). This time Scotland voted for Labour overwhelmingly, as they always do, despite Jonez' comments, and this means scotland got what it deserved. If you vote for an english party, you get an english government.
There is no real place for the scottish national party in westminster in my opinion. Just like there's no place for scotland in a UK union now the EU exists.
Pirate penguin, re: the Conservatives, yes, you're right.
re: the map, sorry Aloone, but only a true idiot would make that sort of assumption without taking into account the population distribution of scotland, and for the record those Labour consituencies aren't tiny, they have, if anything, bigger populations than the rural constituencies do. By the way, it's insult on top of injury that you don't know anything about scotland's population distribution, and yet you feel totally qualified to make assertions based on it, because the english are responsible for scotland's sparse population in the first place (but i don't expect you'll "waste" your time reading up on boring insignificant scottish history). This is another reason why scotland shouldn't be ruled by an english parliament, the english know fuck all about scotland and care even less about it, except to get our oil money and to set up dangerous nuclear facilities on british soil, but safely away from england. Oh yes, and to test out new tax strategies on scotland illegally before deciding how to implement them in england, even though that's forbidden by the Act of Union.
Scotland's the only country ever to discover oil and end up worse off because of it. Why? Because we allowed england to manage our affairs.
England might be a bunch of wankers (politically) but we're worse, we're ruled by wankers.
and finally, another election in six months' time would be my preferred solution, or even better, independence for scotland within europe and give england to the tories, like the english voted for.
one uber final note - it would be typical of many to assume i have some sort of anti-english feeling. i don't, other than politically. Further, i fully support english independence within the EU (possibly including Wales and NI if they want to be included along with england).
