I don't thing Call-me-Dave wants to go down in history as the PM who lost Scotland.
And I'm not sure the Tories would have an inbuilt majority. Democracies rarely have an imbalance. More likely IMO that the Tories would shift to the right to see off UKIP and Labour would shift to the centre to fill the gap, although that may take a few years (or maybe not). Look at the GOP and Dems in the US. They are respectively to the right of Tories and Labour because they are both fighting for the centre ground of US opinion.
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It's also because it wouldn't make a huge amount of difference. I remember seeing something about how the last few elections would have turned out if Scotland was independent and I don't think it changed any of the results.Leave a comment:
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Because for better or worse, it's officially the 'Conservative and Unionist Party', formed after a merger of the Conservative Party and the Liberal Unionist Party, which broke from the Liberal Party in 1912 over Irish home rule. Nowadays the full title is rarely used, because 'Unionism' is a sensitive word, especially considering improved relations with Ireland and new thinking on how to sort out the issues there.Leave a comment:
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No man gets in the way between a Tory and a great big fat pile of cash. Whether that's in the form of exploiting cheap labour or selling the family silver.
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Why aren't the Tories supporting Scottish independence?
It would get rid of a whole truckload of Labour MP's in Westminster and virtually guarantee a Tory government in the next election.
I'm genuinely curious about why they're not supporting it.
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