LATEST opinion polls in Scotland indicate a swing 1o Labour, and a sliaht fall in support for the SNP from around 30 percent to about 27 per cent.
But despite that the SP vote wil be nearly double that in 1987. A swing to Labour was probably inevitable as the election got closer and the desire vote effectively to get rid of the But whatever the precise vote of the SNP, the national question will no. go away.
Whichever party wins out on 9 April, it is sure to face the biggest threat to the United Kingdom" decades. Westminster majority in the 1980s, the ingly turning to independence.
There is no doubt that many dont just see the Tories as the problem, but the whole system. If Labour is elected and a Scottish assembly set up, the demand for it to assume sovereign powers will be very powerful.
Scotland was devastated in the 1980g. The industrial backhone of Scotland, the steel and mining inwere al but destroved closure of the Ravenscraig steel plant was the last straw.
The Tories will be reduced to a tiny rump at the elections. They only have nine seats out of 72 now, but they'li be lucky to emerge with five after April 9. But Scotland could still be governed by the Tories, i Labour is defeated on an all-UK basis.
The logic for many Scots is clearwe've never voted Tory, and with our Tory government. By the same token. of coursa an independent Scotland would almost guarantee a Tory majority in England and Wales. Look' he says our policy isnt out of pinterests our high porcar pill ciples. This is absolute nonsense ihe reason for lory unionism Is precisely naked self-interest: for the British ruling class, the idea of an incependent Scocand, with is own
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