I followed your link and was disappointed to read that the country’s number one political blogger states: “Gordon Brown has divorced Prudence”. Given that he is married to Sarah, is this another example of Mr Dale getting it wrong?

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I followed your link and was dpsapiointed to read that the country's number one political blogger states: Gordon Brown has divorced Prudence . Given that he is married to Sarah, is this another example of Mr Dale getting it wrong?

The Tories are a waste of time in Scotland; however, Labour are also still run from London and have a fool for a leader.

Davidson confirms slow death of the Tories in Scotland.

Ed Milliband confirms slow death of the Labour party in England.

@A. Hole: I'm sure people said the Tories were history in 1997, yet they are in government. If you actually think there will be a permanent Tory government in what remains of the UK, you are seriously deluded.

Good to see the level of debate on this thread so intellectually stimulating.

The Tory party keep bringing up this myth that the Indy question and its timetable is somehow damaging the economy up here. Yet week after week this is being proven wrong. They talk of meetings with business leaders who allegedly say the uncertainty is driving away their enterprises, yet fail to name one or prove this assertion in any way.

It is this kind of nonsense which drives away Scottish voters. We're not daft and don't like being treated as such.

You're making a huge assumption based on no evidence.

Celery

If you look at the polls since the 2010 election one could also contend that.............

LIB DEMS ARE HISTORY!!

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A.Cole: your offensiveness is precisely why the Scots want nothing to do with England - please, go to Wikipedia and gawp at the Scots contribution to science, engineering, medicine, political theory (you surely have heard of Adam Smith), law and politics. Scotland will do very, very well without us; but we will really miss their dazzling contributions to our history. They have produced rather more, proportionally, than whatever region in which you live.

Continually impressed by the author's analysis on Scottish politics and would only disagree with concept of supposed right wing 'values' though I understand the need for apparent balance.

Interestingly most opinion polls show that most Scots oppose independence. This reflects a lack of confidence in their ability to govern their own country. Many Scots also realise that Scotland will become an even greater non-entity without England!!

I watched and listened to Ruth Davidsons speech with little interest it reminded me of a quote attributed to a former Tory minister being savaged by a dead sheep, even Frankenstein could not bring this monster of a party to life, in fact if anything she may finally give it the kiss of death and rid us of more tories in Scotland, one last Tory MP to go and maybe he will take a few of those deceitful Libdems with him. As to the independence debate with so few Tory MPs in Scotland I cannot understand why David Cameron wants to keep us ? many years ago independence was a flight of fancy for the SNP never had enough MPs to make any real difference, then devolution and the Scottish Parliment and the SNP rout of the other parties Labour / Tories ect independence is back on the agenda and could very well be a good thing for Scotland we needed the Barnett formula because Maggie destroyed all our industrial heritage and turned us into a service industry of call centres and the like we did not forget and turfed the Tories out.

Maybe with independance we Scots can get back to real jobs with apprenticeships, take our share of North sea oil if there is anything left after Maggie used it to pay the National debt, to manage our own economy without the Westminister influence, let us try give us the opportunity to be an independent and proud nation of Scots

A.Cole (interesting moniker-shouldn't it be A-hole?), you're an imbecile. Go away and bore someone in a pub somewhere.

Seriously, why allow idiots like a cole to post on this website?

I read articles here quite frequntly, but dicussions BLT are always totally ruined by rightwing muppets.
Show some balls and get rid, then this place might actually become a popular place for intelligent leftist discussion.

Is the fundamental question for the anti-independence Tories not: what is "the union" you seek to keep?

Is it not just the continuation of Westminster sovereignty - ultimate power - which is in the hands of political parties at Westminster?

For every time we have a Labour and a Tory politician on TV or radio neither can come to an agreed position of what unites them against independence. Or is it a case that "the union" they want to keep is one that is not appealing to people. A politicians club.

Maybe a question you would like to put to them James. Why are you so keen to protect Westminster sovereignty when it comes to Scotland? Why do you want to protect ultimate power for partisan politicians?

Davidson's challenge is that she has to keep disparate elements in her own party together whilst dealing with being persistently undermined by Cameron & Co. Her current rebranding attempt and intention to adopt a new logo would seem to be a compromise with this in mind - she can't move as decisively as she might like without losing crucial support, and her best hope is to keep playing it cool. I have no doubt that, as a former journalist, she's aware of how she's being used (with Cameron's interests re Scotland not what he pretends), but it would be suicide for her to show that.

@ A Cole. Here here here.
The English Tories are deluded. They still believe in monarchy, empire, church and 'Blighty'. They should know by now which side of the border their vote is 'buttered' - ENGLAND. Nowhere else matters !