David Cameron's visit to Scotland highlighted one of the main reasons why the Tories failed to achieve a majority in the general election. Scotland.
The chants of: ‘Tory, Tory, Tory. Out, out, out.’ And ‘Eton toff, fuck off’ were enedifying to say the least and proved that the anti-Tory tribalism is still strong north of Hadrian’s Wall.
Why is this?
Even after the Poll Tax debacle, John Major actually GAINED Aberdeen South in 1992 as well as reversing Nicol Stephen’s by-election victory in 1991. So to blame Mrs Thatcher for the continued failure of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party is far too simplistic.
Annabelle Goldie’s team need the coalition to be a success. If not, they may be better off following the plans advocated by many of demerging from the London party.
Of course, this blog highlights the challenges facing the coalition and it is clear in the furious, if twee and antiquated, protests that the Lib Dems have taken a huge risk in tying themselves formally to the Conservatives.
David Cameron boasted that the coalition got more votes in Scotland than the SNP. Whether that will be true in 2011 remains to be seen.
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On your last point, the two parties in combination may or may not get more votes than the SNP at Holyrood, but as they won't be standing on a joint ticket, and are unlikely to join forces even after the election, I'm not quite sure what that would prove.
ReplyDeleteThere's also rather an enormous irony in accusing the critics of the Scottish Tories of being "twee and antiquated"! If they ever want to make a comeback, the first and hardest step will be to stop deluding themselves that the problem is the electorate.