New Statesman - <![CDATA[Osama Saeed]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/osama_saeed en http://images.newstatesman.com/users/avatars/osama-saeed.jpg Osama Saeed http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/osama_saeed <![CDATA[Scotland’s new politics]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/election-2007/2007/05/scotland-england-osama-vote http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/election-2007/2007/05/scotland-england-osama-vote Thu, 03 May 2007 12:27:12 GMT Osama Saeed Why Osama Saeed is glad he isn't having to vote in England

Extraordinarily exciting times in Scotland. I was born in 1980, and as one of Thatcher’s children, it was considered quite something when New Labour shot to power in 1997, giving my generation a government other than a Tory one for the first time in our lives.

As a Scot, we’ve actually been in a one-party state for longer. Scottish Labour have exercised power not just in the post-devolution [...]

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