Democracy

Last week Scotland voted and the SNP came out as the largest single party in the Scottish Parliament.

At work the topic came up today and I explained what I think will happen… The other parties will show remarkable unity in giving the SNP enough rope to hang itself in a minority government, stand back and watch. As will I.

P.S. The disaster that was 100,000 spoiled votes didn’t slip my notice, but there’s not much that can be done now… except learn from the mistake, something that, happily, there’s a lot of support for.

2 Responses to “Democracy”


  1. 1 Jono May 9, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    Much to be debated. I really hope that something can be sorted out soon. It’s all a bit distressing at the moment!
    See you soon.

  2. 2 Bex May 19, 2007 at 6:10 am

    as we now see, not even a minority government, they have lost one SNP MSP to maternity leave (and the news reports it as if this means she loses her vote?!). Thus, if rumours are to be believed, the independent MSP has the casting vote…

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I’m David Illsley, I work in Web Services development at IBM Hursley, which involves work on the Apache WS Project, where I am a committer and PMC member. When not working with technology, I spend a lot of time on the backstage aspects of theatre, and a sadly decreasing amount of time reading.

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