The Times are reporting that Scary Spice, Ginger Spice and Old Spice are due to combine their Labour, Lib Dem and Tory forces in the Scottish Parliament and take on the Nationalists not only on the issue of independence (or lack of it from their point of view) but also on setting the agenda for the next three and a half years in Holyrood.
It's a brave move by these Wannabes, attempting to paint the SNP as being in office and out of power is a tricky balancing act and, probably, will result in them looking like they are not respecting democracy and not respecting the will of the Scottish people. The SNP won fair and square on May 3rd and have since then Spiced Up Our Lives. The sooner the Wannabes accept this and get on with effecive opposition the better.
By all means, they can push bills through parliament where they all happen to have agreement. The trams is one such example where it is perfectly valid for the SNP to be defeated. But for the three parties to form a coalition of sorts, compromising their principles with the primary purpose of pulling the rug from under Salmond's feet is not helpful. Minority administrations are difficult enough without such low brow party politics.
I daresay the Scottish electorate will tire of The Wannabes plans before they even get off the ground, and eventually ask them Who Do You Think You Are?
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But for the three parties to form a coalition of sorts, compromising their principles with the primary purpose of pulling the rug from under Salmond's feet is not helpful.
That's what oppositions do, they oppose. How they choose to do it is their business, nodoby else's and it is certainly not their job to be 'helpful' to the governing Party. The use of dismissive phrases like 'low brow' perhaps shows just how effective the SNP (and/or its acolytes) feel such tactics might prove. What's the problem? If the SNP can't take the political heat (in fact they are pretty slick, so I don't think it bothers them too much, actually) then they should get out of the political kitchen.
In any case, it's a long way to go until the next ScotParl elections. Perhaps, as you surmise, the Scottish voters will see through the tactics of the perfidious opposition parties, who 'dare' to oppose the SNP, on the other hand perhaps they will simply tire of the posturing of an ineffective minority administration which instead of doing the things within its power, with its minority position, are intent on proposing policies which their parliamentary strength simply does not give them the remotest chance of pushing through.
If you are correct in your final assessment (that the electorate will punish the opposition parties for their 'low brow' politics), then the problem will be solved for the SNP should they be sitting on an unassailable majority after the next election when they can do more or less what they like. But they have a long way to go before getting to that 'happy' situation and I think it is unwise, as well as presumptuous, to pre-judge how the Scottish electorate might react over the coming 3 and a bit years.
Hmmm, you could be right Bill, am I so used to such ineffective opposition that when the real thing comes along I begin to think it must be fair play?
If Labour and the Lib Dems have upped their game then that is to be welcomed (I think the Tories have done pretty well so far hence their exclusion).
If however there is some sort of ruse to deliberately leave Salmond hamstrung, in office but out of power, by flatly refusing to back sensible SNP approaches then I am happy to call that low brow. I'd take it further and say it is dangerous.
Dangerous to Scotland as we would have an ineffective, powerless Executive.
And I do think dangerous to the 3 parties. If the only way the SNP will be allowed to put across their policies is through majority government then maybe, just maybe, the electorate will give it to them.
Of course it is presumptuous to predict what will happen in the future, how can it be anything other than that? But I don't think there's any harm in speculation. My word, I would only have had a handful of posts on this page if I didn't speculate. So unwise it may be (as you say), but foolishly I shall continue...
I predict now, this unholy trinity shall backfire on all 3 parties.
Mark my words Cameron, mark my words...! *cackles off into the distance*
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