New Scottish political parties

The Scotsman has today reported that there will be a new Scottish Labour Party organisation, which will make its own decisions (instead of being faxed the script from Labour Party HQ in London).

This follows on from the recent announcement by the best placed Scottish Tory leadership candidate that if elected he will form a new Scottish-based centre right party, independent from the British Conservative and Unionist Party led by Cameron.

The unbundling of the British political establishment is a journey with a definite destination (the British elites seeking to save their jobs and power in a broken Union) and these two structural steps are significant in showing how quickly developments are occurring.

No one else appears to have yet pointed out that a British government relying for its Parliamentary support on a separate Scottish allied party would be unlikely to choose the leader of that relatively minuscule party as Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition.

Thankfully England might therefore be spared another Gordon Brown the Scot who showed the English what moral stature is to be expected from a Scot who was a son of the manse.

Another point worth noting is that when the Tories and Labour cease to stand election candidates in Scotland - and neither of course already stands in Northern Ireland - then how can either of these two parties be considered British?