local election

Thursday am - the day begins with blair, cameron and salmond and menzies all worried, and possibly excited about how the days events would unravel.

News experts and politic experts betting on parties successes and MPs worried about whether they will be left with a job at the end of the day

Thursday am continued - the poll stations opened and so the vote begins

Thursday pm - labour is down however not as much as was expected, lib dems are also down, BNP are remaining stable and conservative up but again not as much as expected.

Friday - final results show lib dems have lost 4 councils, labour have lost 8 and cameron has gained 38 councils absalotly slaughtering labour. Howver conservatives failed the break into the north of the country or into Scotland.

Scotland after a tense wait which took longer due to failed voting electronic systems found out that the SNP had one more seat than labour who had their biggest success in Scotland. However the SNP now decide whether to join with another party to hold a larger section of seats and control over parliment or try and battle with labour. Labour themselves fail to persuade the Lib Dems to join them in Scotland and so remain one seat short of the SNP.

Would a break with Scotland even nenficial to England. Well a break would mean less paper work for England however we would loose a large source of incom coming from Scottish oil rigs ( which is almost equalivilant to the expenditure for Scotland so no major saving can be made. By loosing Scotland we also would not be bound to their rules and them to us which is alot better as they have different issues and different opions. However we would loose a large part of the british army.

However Scotland could benifit from breaking with England. Firstly more freedom and ore decisions can be given to them, and in economic terms this could be benifical as it could cut areas of spending such as the military which becuase of the countries size and neighbours it may not require or require as large a one as current. Corpoartion tax could also be cut to attract larger businesses and companies (not possible for the UK for fear of upsetting large countries ) and this could be good for Scotland as one 1/5 of there income nationally is from oil which is an unstable source of icnome as the price could drop por rise or alternativly run out.

So we shall wait to see how the SNP proceed and whether they battle Labour, or join forces with another party or join labour themselves and come to a special agreement.

Meanwhile it is clear that the conservative party won the local election and hold significantly more councils but they have done this for the last few years beating labour in local elections but not the general elections could it happen again??

Could Brown improve labours current sleazy, lying and destructive and hopeless image to something better or will Cameroon soon be in Number 10 with Brown only living there a few months ?