Although the Nationalists do not have a majority, they do have a public mandate to try their legislation first.
That’s an interesting variation of "democracy" devolution for Scotland has delivered.
What tends to be forgotten every time "Prime-Minister" Salmond struts the UK stage or his SNP "government" delivers yet another piece of English-baiting propaganda is that they are, in fact, a minority government, elected by only 32.9 % of the electorate...they clearly therefore do not "speak for Scotland".
You would have also thought that their ability to carry out any kind of separatist policy as a minority government (holding only 47 seats out of a total of 129) should be limited.
Has Scottish Labour finally cottoned onto those two salient facts?
Possibly and played correctly this proposal could pull the rug from under the secessionists' feet, but it’ll require a great deal of tactical awareness and guile and those are two qualities which so far look to be beyond not just the Labour Party, but all other shades of Unionism in Scotland.
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