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The Last Labour Government
Neal Lawson

Published on the first day of Labour conference 2009, this report argues that the current Labour Government could well be the very last and argues only a referendum on the electoral system can save Labour now. The report further reveals what could be the worse Conservative Government in living memory.



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Posted by Joe Middleton (Edinburgh)
on 28 September 2009, 12:24:37 PM
All I can say is good! Labour have wasted their years in power and an independent Scotland will be able to escape from the stifling right wing consensus which exists in Britain. With Britain gone Wales would emerge as an independent country and Cornwall would move in that direction with perhaps devolution initially. NI is unlikely to want to be part of England though one never knows but the chances of re-unification with Eire would be more likely.

Without Britain's imperial pretensions and Scotland's Oil an independent England would likely drop Trident (the Scottish people don't want nuclear submarines and an SNP Government would ask for them to be removed.)

England would initially get the right wing Government which they will get anyway under Britain and have suffered to an extent under Labour anyway, but the pendulum might shift back again and this time there might be an actual socialist party in existence ready to make reforms. There isn't one at the moment as Labour are a busted flush who rely on the House of Lords for their ministers and whose MP's are almost as corrupt as the Tories.

Yes to electoral reform but no Labour won't go for it and in any case Scotland has a much brighter future without the obstacle of Britain.

Scotland isn't at the next climate change conference 'because that is the way it has always been done', things need to change.
Posted by ann wardle (southampton)
on 16 September 2010, 1:25:10 PM
I have promised myself that I will stop reading any article that includes - "Although many good things have been done," or similar, unless it is a followed substantial list of our acheivments of which there are many.
Posted by Alex (Glasgow)
on 21 February 2011, 9:08:59 AM
The link to the document doesn't work.

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