The Tories can call themselves whatever they like they will still be Tories, if it looks like a rat, smells like a rat and acts like a rat, its a rat whatever you want to call it. The Scots have nothing in common with the Tories and would never vote for them to represent them, they know nothing of the working class, look at their policies now, on the disabled, the homeless, the sick, the unemployed, council house tenant's welfare payments.Like the LibDems they could hold their next party conference in a telephone box, and still have room. It is a real shame that we could not have got rid of the one Tory MP that we have, the list MSP are a joke and only got there because of the PR and list system in the Scottish Parliament, I look forward to their extinction just like the Dodo.

I think this may be a good idea, people up in Scotland prehaps feel they have little choice, the middle of the road people who do not like the conservatives who would not wish to vote for Labour so they end up voting for SNP. So in principle it seems like a good idea and this Murdo chap is a decent hard working man who clearly has Scotlands best interests at heart, i understand the fishing industries and countryside issues are very important in Scotland ,yet down hear we give them very little thought! or prehaps the conservatives in Scotland should work harder and not just place a kilt on the westminster manifesto. The Conservatives have changed alot in the past decade and they needed to do so , people in scotland still mention that Margaret Thatcher woman yet all political parties have changed since her day, even Labour are completely different and prehaps that is the reason people chose to vote for the SNP or this could just represent the decline of Left Wing goverments in the whole europe these days , so yes Scotland and even we in England need more choice then the usual two or if not break away completely have some kind of annex to the main party's that concentrates on the local issues.

The Scots Parliament is odd in that out of the 5 groups and 1 independent sitting in it, only one can truly be said to be centre-right. All the others, be it the Greens, Labour, SNP, LibDem or Margo MacDonald all position themselves on the centre-left or centre of the spectrum. Its odd that this is the case.

I'm a Scot by the way. The Tories up here brought this up at the beginning of their review process a year ago, and Annable Goldie didn't sound too opposed to it, but they did say in passing that the Scottish Progressive Party or the Progressive & Unionist Party would be there name (tapping the historic link from the 1930s-50s in which theirs was the more dominant party in Scotland as they were the Unionist Party).

If it succeeds in successfully creating a centre-right block in Scotland then it'll have two likely consequences;
1. The further demise of the LibDems/SNP rural seats. As many of those seats, out with the Inverness/Sutherland area were historically blue. Most likely Perthshire, North-Fife and the Borders, where most 'list' MSP tories come from.
2. The improvement in the number of blue patches on the westminster electoral map out with the borders and a shot in the arm to Unionism.

If it fails, which if it's not done properly it may well, it will be a shot in the arm of Salmond who'll play it as even the Tories don't want a UK anymore as they are now no longer that in Scotland....

Unionism is kind of a dead word though, it should be devolutionism vs independence. The idea that power in Scotland is good within the Union framework. Hopefully Ed Miliband and UK wide Labour catch onto this as Welsh and Scottish Labour are much more different in attitude to UK wide labour on the market in the NHS, education and other social areas.

The real killer thing for independence though would be federalism. And that is what we really need in the UK.

The very last thing the world needs is another Conservative Party.

Interesting tactic but clearly the Tories haven't been paying attention. The reason the Lib Dems were all but wiped out in Scotland is because they collaborated with the Tories. So any deal or alliance with the Westminster Tories will result in a similiar disdain. The reason former Labour heartlands finally started to shift to the SNP after years of courting was because they were finally convinced the 'Tartan Tories' smear was a myth. Still, watching Cameron's party effectively run up the white flag in Scotland will be well worth watching, hope it is televised.

Good riddance. I'm fed up with subsidising the Glasgow underclass. Let someone else keep em in booze and deep fried mars bars.

the new party title: Conservative Unionist: Tory Scotland (CUTS) Of course it could be :No Tory Scotland

Yeah, me too John. I'm also sick of subsidising morris dancing rioters. I know that sentence was complete rubbish, but it makes as much sense as your bewildered generalisation.

@swatantra nandanwar

'Not for nothing is Salmond commonly known as 'Thatcher in a Kilt'. First time I've ever heard the expression and I live in Scotland. It was just this sort of belief in their own distorted utterances that lead Labour to massive defeat in May.

As to the rest of your post: what does it even mean?

Iain

This might just surprise you, I am an English Nationalist with Scottish relatives and it's the first time I've ever heard that as well.

The way I'm reading it it seems that Swatantra Nandanwar is trying to stir up a racist situation, ignore.

The new Scottish party should be called 'The Ayrheads' lol!

How about rebranding a "The Whigs"? That should upset the Orange LibDems.

You're absolutely right Lox.The unionists are going to divide across party lines between the realists like Murdo Fraser and,as you say, the dinosaurs.

Good. Hopefully this will pave the way for a Scotland independent of Westminster....and Labour robbed of the support of all of it's Scottish MPs. RIP LABOUR!!